Which is the more powerful, money or knowledge? Some say money, others say knowledge. I pose the question to you, but this is my point of view. In the capitalist state money holds some element of power in terms of controlling the poor; while money can be used to control the rich (assume the two groups exist alone [i.e. no middle class] and a feud existing between the them) it isn't attainable without education. But this is not always the case, with knowledge being able to be used against both groups.Money controls democracy, it corrupts it and chokes it to death. There is no point in voting for anything because you can guarantee that somewhere along the line the majority will not count for what it's worth. Capitalism says that democracy exists. But that is a deliberate lie. Even those who vote for the new CEO of a company are affected. The director is not chosen by the majority of people but the majority of shares. Therefore you could have one or two people having more say over the other thousands, which under democracy would have been classed as corruption had it not been for legal swindling. Democracy, as it exists is corrupted. The rights to public ownership are also affected by capitalism. If you own a share in BHP (Broken Hill Propriety), you are not entitled to setting your house up on a mining site, and yet you own a part of that business. If you own a percentage of that business, why then aren't you allowed to convert that percentage into a percentage of land instead of owning some stupid piece of paper that does you no good except to feed your own capitalistic greed?
In the end, as much as we hate to admit it, he/she who has lots of money had the greater control, in the capitalist states most Westerners abide within, providing he/she has the willingness to learn. Without money education is unattainable to an effective degree, but without education you can't build on your money. Even "get rich quick" schemes, involving high return offshore trading, require some sort of investment to begin with, and often this is overpriced to deepen the pockets of those who prey on the poor. Money had become the oracle of life. When the capitalist need something they turn to money, when they want something we turn to money, when they don't want or need anything we use money to ward it off. Worst off all, the capitalist uses money to place him/herself above his/her fellow man/woman. Money gives the capitalist power where morals fail.
(What also strikes me as odd, back in Australia, is that prejudice held against the working class isn't based on money, most people with industrial type jobs [e.g. those who work in mines, on docks, etc.] make more money than the average Australian. What makes the Australian working class Working Class is the existing views that are held against them. The existing views encompassing the belief that they should be paid less, or company work force sizes reduced, when unions protest the capitalists put them into the box of "greedy miners" or "greedy wharfies," and make every attempt to convince the public it is the company directors who get the cheap end of the bargain. Why, therefore, do the directors decide to take these actions in the first place?)
Call me naive, but the whole concept of monetary exchange as a means of survival is completely overrated. Thin strips of plastic that can't be good use for much, except to melt down and make chairs our of... yet a "five dollar note" is worth two loaves of bread in Australia (depending on where you go)... but those coins, cheap jewellery? If you live in Cuba, or England, or another country that has paper notes, convert them into a pulp and create paper for books to educate the poor.
Intangible verus the intangible in an all out battle for power. An over rated piece of crap versus knowledge. Is it just me or does it seem a bit odd to you that the crap should win?
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