Venezuelan bolivars have now become as good as free money. It's an old communist dream that the money will wither away and all the stuff will be free. So this is how it happens. We have seen the future, comrades! When everyone is a millionaire, no one is.

Foreign exchange rates are tools of KKKapitalist oppression! Money demands to be free! Demand monetary equality! #EndTheForex #ArgentSansFrontières

Imperatorskiy Pingvin wrote:Foreign exchange rates are tools of KKKapitalist oppression! Money demands to be free! Demand monetary equality! #EndTheForex #ArgentSansFrontières

Money itself is a capitalist construct. Everything should be free!

RedDiaperette wrote:

Imperatorskiy Pingvin wrote:Foreign exchange rates are tools of KKKapitalist oppression! Money demands to be free! Demand monetary equality! #EndTheForex #ArgentSansFrontières

Money itself is a capitalist construct. Everything should be free!

Like FREE CHEESE!

We have explored this idea before and found it historically inevitable.

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But back to the topic: many comrades become deceived by this very common capitalist misconception that they earn their own money. This is, of course, the result of the brainwashing by the oppressors.

All money belongs to the state and exists in such numbers as the state deems necessary. The toiling masses are given money so they can hold it in their unwashed, calloused hands, enjoy the artistic depictions of their glorious leaders, and then return this money back to the state because they don't know what else to do with it anyway.

Only the leaders of the state know how to use it properly. Money exists exclusively for their enjoyment during the rare moments of leisure when they are not commiserating with the downtrodden or caring for the unwashed.

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There's really nothing new under the sun.

The chapter in Plutarch's Lives on Lycurgus (the man that created Sparta's collectivist culture) explains how he outlawed gold and silver so as to destroy commerce, which he viewed as the root of all social inequality. Instead he created a money based on iron that had been destroyed of any value by a process that rendered the iron the most worthless scrap. It took piles of such iron to equal the value of the smallest purchase anywhere but Sparta.

Instead of commerce each family had an equal amount of land and an equal amount of slaves to work the land and give them free stuff.

Karl Marx Treatment Center wrote:There's really nothing new under the sun.

The chapter in Plutarch's Lives on Lycurgus (the man that created Sparta's collectivist culture) explains how he outlawed gold and silver so as to destroy commerce, which he viewed as the root of all social inequality. Instead he created a money based on iron that had been destroyed of any value by a process that rendered the iron the most worthless scrap. It took piles of such iron to equal the value of the smallest purchase anywhere but Sparta.

Instead of commerce each family had an equal amount of land and an equal amount of slaves to work the land [highlight=#ffff00]and give them free stuff[/highlight].

Like, a free exercise wheel for my free oversized cage... (with soft bed floor for when Comrade Putout stops by) Yes? Like that?

CC

Captain Craptek wrote:...Like, a free exercise wheel for my free oversized cage... (with soft bed floor for when Comrade Putout stops by) Yes? Like that? CC

Rodents. <spit> You can move them to the front of the breadline and they'd still bitch because they want toast...

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:

Captain Craptek wrote:...Like, a free exercise wheel for my free oversized cage... (with soft bed floor for when Comrade Putout stops by) Yes? Like that? CC

Rodents. <spit> You can move them to the front of the breadline and they'd still bitch because [highlight=#ffff00]they want toast[/highlight]...

...with orange marmalade - like these modern Progressive Kids^tm - I demand everything these dudes get or, or, or I'll hold my breath and turn blue! Then you'll be sorry!

Captain Craptek wrote:... I demand everything these dudes get or, or, or I'll hold my breath and turn blue! Then you'll be sorry!

Damn, Craptek. I guess you showed us.Everything those dudes get? lets see, driving without a licence, grand theft (auto), unauthorized entry, theft of a jersey from a professional athlete (OJ disapproves too) , theft of a WAD of cash, general hooliganism... I'll say (with the exception of the white kid, who will get a stern warning) they each get 10 to 25 yrs, and with time off for good behavior I'd estimate out in 6 years. Then again they're awfully young, and will be most popular in the prison... they may never leave.Take what they get, or start that color-change stuff; I'll tell you what, as a favor, I'll <ahem> check in on Putout from time to time while your're gone.

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:

Captain Craptek wrote:... I demand everything these dudes get or, or, or I'll hold my breath and turn blue! Then you'll be sorry!

Damn, Craptek. I guess you showed us.Everything those dudes get? lets see, driving without a licence, grand theft (auto), unauthorized entry, theft of a jersey from a professional athlete (OJ disapproves too) , theft of a WAD of cash, general hooliganism... I'll say (with the exception of the white kid, who will get a stern warning) they each get 10 to 25 yrs, and with time off for good behavior I'd estimate out in 6 years. Then again they're awfully young, and will be most popular in the prison... they may never leave.Take what they get, or start that color-change stuff; I'll tell you what, as a favor, I'll <ahem> check in on Putout from time to time while your're gone.

I have friends I know people like Dr. Utopia who'll get me the good stuff. (like Comrade Putout) You can have the left-overs, like Comrade Maddow or Rosa DeLauro - or, maybe you'd prefer Lena Denham. I hear she has a way with nuts. (in the orchard, that is)

But for now,.. I must take my leave. There's much work to complete on the interior design plans for my new (free) cage with soft floor and high performance exercise wheel. Have a nice day.

CC

Captain Craptek wrote:But for now,.. I must take my leave. There's much work to complete on the interior design plans for my new (free) cage with soft floor and high performance exercise wheel. Have a nice day.

CC

Bad news. Doctor Utopia says they're fresh out of free cages. You don't have a very good place in the que. All that's left are free goldfish bowls.

$.$. Halliburton wrote:

Captain Craptek wrote:But for now,.. I must take my leave. There's much work to complete on the interior design plans for my new (free) cage with soft floor and high performance exercise wheel. Have a nice day.

CC

Bad news. Doctor Utopia says they're fresh out of free cages. You don't have a very good place in the que. [highlight=#ffff00]All that's left are free goldfish bowls[/highlight].

What size - how many gallons?

A five gallon fishbowl, a couple of pirrhana fish, and a squirrel...good wholesome family entertainment!

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:A five gallon fishbowl, a couple of pirrhana fish, and a squirrel...good wholesome family entertainment!

I've almost mastered these night vision goggles, comrade - you better hope your trees are well lit.