Re: [CATOT] Money is the source of all good (was: Re: Profesional gaming)

"Kevin M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Xian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Kevin M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >
> >> To know a thing is to love a thing.  I love money.  Why is this
> >> wrong?
> >
> > Oh come on, Kevin.  Do you love money, or do you love what you can
> > get with money?
> 
> You have to love money FIRST, or else everything you get with money is
> corrupt, inferior, and a fraud.

I never understand how people can love money, or cars.  Money is just
a means to an end: it facilitates trade, cars are just a means to an
end: they take you from A to B.

> 
> The concept of money is that of FREEDOM -- that every man is entitled to the
> product of his mind, and his effort.

Load of BS! Money gives pseudo-freedom. Unless, freedom means "getting
to buy whatever i want" to you, and then you must be a very shallow
person, IMO.

Besides, working for 40 or more hours in a week is not my idea of
freedom.  Unless, of course, you want to do it, like to do it AND have
a choice wether to do it or not.

Money does not represent freedom, money (starting at a certain amount)
represents POWER. That's the reason people want more and more of it. 
And, as we all know, power corrupts.

> 
> To love a thing is to know and love its nature.  To know money is to know
> and love the fact that money is the frozen form of my hard work, and the
> ONLY way that I can trade my hard work for someone else's hard work.  In
> this way, with this conceptal concrete (the money), I can trade among men
> without using force, something I could otherwise not do.

Nice theory. But in practice, it just doesn't work this way. e.g.
You're not using force, but your government does (not US bashing, ours
does too).  And force is always directed at people that are weaker...

> 
> I love money because it represents WORK, so I know that when money is being
> exchanged, it is being exchanged between productive members of society;
> those are the people I would choose to deal with.

NO it isn't. What about people who are born rich?  They can spend
money because daddy won the lottery. How does that represent work?

To bring this thingy back on topic: Here i'm ranting against money
while the game i play the most and the whole concept of CCGs is
inherently capitalistic. *sigh* But at least I'm aware of it ;)

Jeroen,
armchair lefto-theorist ;)