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  What I was referring to was a specific example about a broader idea - that transactional language and finance have become rampant in American conversation because of their essential nature to how our society is structured. Money is a dominant factor in any and every aspect of culture - to me that is because of the influence of capitalism.

  The idea is that an economic backbone to society should not promote the complete domination of that society, nor should it emphasize competition at the expense of anything other than personal profit. The way this system leverages power is degrading to how our society tries to order itself. A great example is when a minor gun control law with 90% public approval failed to pass in the US government due to the capital influence of the NRA; our sense of economic priority and its creation of a political aristocracy has got to the point where children being slaughtered is weighed against a red line.

  The internet was used as an example of creative free reign and human interest - a place of ambiguous social nature so not everyone on it was immediately thinking of how to make money, but rather exploring what was actually being developed. Human nature is to explore - and an economic system that uses transactions to facilitate that is not problematic, but one that says those transactions are worth more than what is on either side of them will eventually create the corrupt and decrepit social state currently being seen across the USA.

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  • tl/dr: business can still exist, and flourish, with a different social psychology toward economics that would be less about individualismcolin_s
  • your assumptions to it all make no sense. 1) Money is a dominant source in societies as it is a way of trading value with high liquidity. Wont have much of adeathboy
  • society without it. Imagine buying rice with chickens if people only have chickens, its evolved the way it has for very easy to see reasons.deathboy
  • second opinion on gun point. 90% of approval for what? And blaming an organization. Can toss this whole paragraph out as garbage.deathboy
  • actually the whole dotcom internet thing was about a gold rush to find ways to make money. as far as economic system to it... u lost we... think your crackersdeathboy

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