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orwell

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19. What's new...

Mon Nov 18, 2024, 03:40 PM

Nov 2024

...same as it ever was.

Wait until they come to the realization that money itself is an abstraction, created out of thin air, to give us an illusion of material importance and to ultimately delineate class structures. (Spoiler alert...they won't)

Try eating a bar of gold sometime...

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Raw Story: WSJ editorial warns Elon Musk's 'blow-it-all-up' ideas will devastate U.S. economy [View all] Yavin4 Nov 2024 OP

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