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    First, understand capitalism, start with Adam Smith, then Marx’s Capital

    Then read Anything by: Marx, Engles, Lenin, in that order.

    Take a break and listen to lectures by Parenti to understand neoimperialism.

    Then read Stalin and Mao.

    I recommend audiobooks.

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    A planet that runs on money, you can morph it, alter it, but you won’t be able to destroy it.

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      “A planet that runs on land, you can morph it, alter it, but you won’t be able to destroy it.”

      -you but under feudalism.

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      Somehow people lived for thousands of years without money, but at this moment money becomes indestructible lmao

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        Somehow people lived for thousands of years without money

        cavemen as people lolz

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      Credit/debit systems appear to have existed for at least 5000 years. Money is just an abstraction technology to make the credit/debit economy work more smoothly and scale up.

      As money is a foundational tech for civilization, you’d need to find a replacement tech that serves much the same purpose, but avoids whatever downsides you feel outweigh it’s benefits. That’s a hard problem.

      Then implement it in such a way that civilization doesn’t implode during the transition. This is a very hard problem.

      And then prevent humanity from finding a way to exploit that tech for the benefit of the few, bringing you right back where you started. This is a nearly impossible problem.