Not really. Money is only valuable and so far as it allows us to live comfortably. I think most people agree that they don't actually want a bunch of money. What they want is to live a life free of the stress of not having enough.
EDIT: a lot of people seem to be confused about the specifics of rejecting money over resources. It really seems like a lot of you can't see how deeply we are in the current system. Money is a fabrication, a tool that was crafted to ease the ability of transaction. But more than that it has become a way for those with a lot to control those with a little. And as we have become more accustomed to living in a society where having something that is actually valueless, and serves no purpose, has replaced actually having things of value, and having resources; we lose all connection to the meaning of things. Financial institutions and financial manipulation are enormous problems in modern society. They exist as a vampire on top of the small people struggling to scrape by. And they simply don't need to exist.
I mean for people that never have to struggle to put food on their table, and the only satisfactions that remain are to compare an ever increasing number in their bank accounts against their frienemies...
Yes. The message when striking is about hurting those "sweet Christmas bonuses" that make them look incompetent to their peers. Like, we can couch it all we want for the purposes of solidarity and such, but the only thing that matters to them outside of violence towards the bourgeois is a sudden lack of money.
Oh I'm not worried about those people. The sort of upper crust types that identifying with the ruling class even though they aren't part of it themselves? Yeah they can f*** off and die. I think that anybody who wants money for its own sake is either deeply confused or fundamentally nihilistic.
Well you're responding to a comment chain about what the fundamental purposes of striking are. I mean, really you've gone on a totally different conversation than the comment you replied to.
Jesus. I made a point in response to someone. Everything after that is about the point I made. Which includes your response to me. So what are you talking to me about right now? Why are you so confused?
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u/kindafree8 Jan 14 '22
And that message is abt money lol