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EKELOS
| 18.2 |
A world of money
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| This world we speak of with so much misery is a world created that runs on money. The ultimate reality is if you have lots of money, or if you don't. | ||
| If you have lots of money, then in this world, you can pretty much afford to do anything. If you don't, then your life choices are restricted. | ||
| 18.2.1 | Money as the centre of the universe | |
| Money is at the heart of our daily activities. Most of us work to make money to then purchase the things we need and want to live. Only a few of us still work to make the things we need and want to live directly (thus negating the need for money). | ||
| Money is at the centre of our societies. Our governments take our money to do things. Our corporations employ people so to provide goods and services for money. Nations trade goods and services for money. Our most popular television shows are games about winning money. One of our most popular hobbies is to enter lotteries or gamble for money. | ||
| 18.2.2 | Money as the core aspiration of youth culture | |
| While the purpose of money is principally as a means of exchange, the aspiration for the things money helps purchase has been replaced in youth culture by the aspiration of money itself. | ||
| Young hip-hop music artists who currently dominate the youth culture of the world celebrate the acquisition of great wealth and power through subversive and illegal means. They glorify the culture of mass consumerism that great wealth can bring. They typify the elite and corrupt merchant culture of ancient Rome around 100CE that represent the archetype of the "orgies" so famously associated with Rome. | ||
| Money is God. Money is the one thing everyone wants. And the result of such single minded ends without morals has been the growth in crime for the sole purpose of financial gain. The store robbery, the murder for money, the identity fraud, the con, the kidnapping. | ||
| 18.2.3 | Global financial system | |
| And the machinery that runs all this money is the global financial system of banks and federal authorities, principally controlled directly and indirectly by the United States of America and Europe. | ||
| The wealthiest banks of the world and the wealthiest trade exchanges in the world are all interlinked through vast digital networks so that electronic trade information can speed around the globe in a fraction of a second. The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the major national federal exchanges all play a part in supporting this network. | ||
| In turn, this network extends to local bank branches, auto tellers, shops and stores. When you purchase something using an auto-teller machine or card reader, you are connecting into this global grid of money. | ||
| So extensive and developed has this digital network of money become that you can literally travel around the world with nothing more than a credit card for money. | ||
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