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Debt Is The Most Effective Way To Take A Relation Of Violent Subordination And Make The Victims Feel That It's Their Fault.

Traditional Hedonism...was Based On The Direct Experience Of Pleasure: Wine, Women And Song; Sex, Drugs And Rock 'n' Roll; Or Whatever The Local Variant. The Problem, From A Capitalist Perspective, Is That There Are Inherent Limits To All This. People Become Sated, Bored...modern Self-illusory Hedonism Solves This Dilemma Because Here, What One Is Really Consuming Are Fantasies And Day-dreams About What Having A Certain Product Would Be Like.

One Of The Fairly Interesting Things About Money Is That It Makes Certain Things Possible That Wouldn't Be Possible Otherwise - It Doesn't Make Them Inevitable. Hence The Strange Blindness Of Economists To What Would Actually Happen When One Does Exchange Things If There Isn't Money In Such Contexts.

I Would Like, Then, To End By Putting In A Good Word For The Non-industrious Poor. At Least They Aren’t Hurting Anyone. Insofar As The Time They Are Taking Time Off From Work Is Being Spent With Friends And Family, Enjoying And Caring For Those They Love, They’re Probably Improving The World More Than We Acknowledge.

I Think We Need To Think Of Capitalism As A Very Bad Way Of Organizing Communism. Much Of What We Do Is Already Communism, So Just Expand It.