• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Look at the crypto bros.

    We’ve gone so far off the rails in terms of the economy that it boggles the mind.

    I was brought with the idea that the old Tsarist system of a few great land owners; a small middle class of minor merchants, tradesmen, white collar civil servants; and a sea of serfs, was always going to be unstable. That’s the idea the Right wants for all of us.

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      11 months ago

      Till there be property there can be no government, the very end of which is to secure wealth, and to defend the rich from the poor. In this age of shepherds, if one man possessed 500 oxen, and another had none at all, unless there were some government to secure them to him, he would not be allowed to possess them.”

      Adam Smith, “ Lectures on Jurisprudence” 1766

      All states are unstable, because their function is to secure the wealth of the many in the hands of the few.