The government prints the money and then demands it back again. What is the point of this nonsense? Could we find a more absurd way to govern ourselves? Democracy is a system where the wise must ask the permission of the unwise. We have a government that will foreclose and evict people from their houses to protect the budgets of the money-lenders. A government of the foolish, by the foolish and for the foolish may never perish, but there is always hope that it will pass. Will Scrooge awake to see how the love of money cost him more than what money can buy?
The rain falls on both the just and unjust, and the wise and the unwise. Perhaps we can purchase redemption, but that would require breaking the budget, erasing the numbers and starting anew. The world is thousands of years late for a scheduled Jubilee, and so we share poverty and war instead of joy. Why do we teach our children lies about money and power?
Inflation destroys every budget, and inflation is caused by how we understand money and how we value things. All profit and interest returns to us as an increased expense. The vicious circle returns to where it began.
People live in a greater fear of numbers than they do of death or damnation. If people understood the beauty of zero, then they would not be so afraid of it. Everybody can afford zero; there is no need to budget anything. Will we waste the entirety of our brief existence doing nothing but counting and chasing money? To be happy and free we must think differently about money. Budgeting is cruelty to humans.
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