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"You invite money, you relinquish control. the money stops the moment you don't fall in line even with crowdfunding" ❓
💬 said by anime graf mays)

That does seem true about money and seems towards my level of "purism" (if I can call it that)

...but I don't have an answer for going without money usage other than at some point money is used & needed and to head towards not using it....

...so maybe I'd stay at the "at home" level of #computing to make sure of that since we all have that (like a #p2p version of Mastodon just for some imagination and example) but then I'm not sure what else can be bigger + 24/7 running and care / minimise without big money and #BIGtech (Mastodon runs on Amazon S3 mostly everywhere). Trying mostly just with home-tech and software as the setup?... might be 'for the way' with #climate being eaten (by us) and polluted (by USA mostly)...

Money here is the problem too but also that people DON'T understand a lot about how it's stealing / diminishing instantly and over time... but even without making this about money STILL ANTI-google/youtube people are posting google / youtube links for example here which is CHA-CHING for them for millions of links per day... so this shows people are lazy or fall into back into bad habits (or not using filtered links through something open-source like Invidious which obviously hurt them as they changed it to ruin filters sites - this is a good sign and shows hurting them at the "money" level is a real winner)

So we're born into the 'money' scam / scheme / system (in English also means way of swindle) and we can't get out to a certain extent without eliminating ourselves from purely needing that consumption even to eat or do transactions (which ever transaction is taxed further reducing effectiveness of money / displace it)....

THE REST BELOW IS AN
ANSWER TO 'WHAT IS MONEY?'

...and if you think you know all this then read it and tell me you knew all this and can live life easily and knowingly without doing something about money itself as the main problem (for all things, Mastodon and all life)...

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SO WHAT IS MONEY?
(ACCORDING TO ME AND YOU?)
===================

FOR ME "MONEY" IS... a deflationary medium, deliberately reducing it's worth over time to undermine to steal back value back to banks and cheat people out of their energy and savings while seemingly providing life but overall much less than you think and even entering MINUS / NEGATIVE NUMBERS / EQUATIONS (and therefore life similarly negative)

Money it also psychologically accumulated ignorance (and very hard to follow) but 'easy' to use making the medium used by the many who use it but don't understand it - and can't see or accept other people are paying for money as loans / fees / etc which actually dilutes their own " #money " and reduces overall "money" if if they never took a loan!. All loans allow more debt than anything else positive as banks re-loan with false power (can loan 9 or 10x your savings)

So society accrues a false sense of security while almost everyone is losing like a bag of sand with a hole you can't really see but leaks even more when you move it (or another analogy like bucket with hole).

Which is also why people have to work endlessly... like a leak in your society's bucket... and it's mainly called a " #bank " 🏦

Anime, I guess you aren't for money but would like to ask if you could image small-scale / at-home stuff working (so maybe no remote server / no Amazon S3 / no Cloud in between ?) ❓

"...trying to be profitable just deepens said shithole."

#Quote by @ksaj
Post: https://infosec.exchange/@ksaj/113369054841424384

"Looking at how much of a shithole X has become, and how it just keeps getting worse, is proof in the pudding. It's hard to be profitable in that space, and trying to be profitable just deepens said shithole."

#Quote by Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸 @enmodo

Post: https://mastodon.social/@enmodo/113366794801121527

"...I worked at a VC funded startup and they let it go for two years with no interest in us making revenue. I was told by the founder this was common and gives VCs more leverage later. If you've created something good then you'll need more money to stay in business and they get more equity for continued funding because you're desperate. And if you're mediocre you're never going to be a great exit so they cut their losses and move on."

Vampire Empire
Venture Capitalism
Vulture Capitalism
State Capitalism

(State being the head Vulture + banks cheating everyone else..,

#VampireEmpire ? 🧛 💉 🩸
#VentureCapitalism 💰 🤑 💰
#VultureCapitalism 🦃 👸 💎

#Capitalism the Vanilla flavour with STATE AND BANKS 🏦
Robbing people of their labour and future

Vulture Capitalism...
"...gives VCs more leverage later. "

#Quote by Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸 @enmodo

Post: https://mastodon.social/@enmodo/113366794801121527

"...I worked at a VC funded startup and they let it go for two years with no interest in us making revenue. I was told by the founder this was common and gives VCs more leverage later. If you've created something good then you'll need more money to stay in business and they get more equity for continued funding because you're desperate. And if you're mediocre you're never going to be a great exit so they cut their losses and move on."

Vampire Empire
Venture Capitalism
Vulture Capitalism
State Capitalism

(State being the head Vulture + banks cheating everyone else..,

#VampireEmpire ? 🧛 💉 🩸
#VentureCapitalism 💰 🤑 💰
#VultureCapitalism 🦃 👸 💎

#Capitalism the Vanilla flavour with STATE AND BANKS 🏦
Robbing people of their labour and future

Vulture Capitalism...
"...gives VCs more leverage later. "

@jawarajabbi Aren't "grants" another kind of "free money" which is from a usually non-caring States that simply want to find out all the info and what they take advantage of from it and your research ?

You mentioned "philanthropic organizations" that would be help better than my description of a grant - but can you name some philanthropic organizations ? ❓

Grant doesn't seem like a good free lunch either they really do give it almost blindly / without terms and conditions (?)... that's why I'd like an example.

Who doesn't want something back like any Vampire Empire which is like the Venture Capitalist / Vulture Capitalism people talk about (in fact the head Vulture being state so not much better)..

#VampireEmpire ? 🧛 💉 🩸
#VentureCapitalism 💰 🤑 💰
#VultureCapitalism 🦃 👸 💎
Or just Vanilla #Capitalism as #Grants / paid research and development for the next dirty work from your ideas...

#philanthropy organizations ?

@loveenergy@mastodon.social @Gargron Ok I'm listening.., can you tell me more about your offer to Gargron and how it would work out for the good?

"Sometimes I like to pretend that things will turn out okay"

#Quote from Jon Lindemann
@mrdiamondj

Post: https://mrdiamondj.social/@mrdiamondj/113366212552554756

@ntnsndr #BeauifulSolutions #BOOK IS A COLLECTION OF IDEAS FOR CHANGING our #communities and our world.

"...so many examples all around us that give us hope and show us what is possible, many of which are already happening. Look around. Can you find a credit union? A food cooperative? A
community garden? What about a mutual aid project?
...
When they are connected to each other and given the resources they need to grow, the solutions that already exist in our #communities community can be the starting point for collective transformation.

"...hinting seems to me, often, to just be a way to get people to do things without actually taking responsibility for having told them to 🤷‍♀️"

- Katy Elphinstone #Quote @KatyElphinstone

Post: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/113443552944372153

Lots of further domino effects happen relative to sleep you've had...

When tired it is natural to:
- over-feed
- see and hear things while asleep
- react differently
- skip things you shouldn't

Overall lack of sleep is related to a domino of extra effects... over-consumption included.

#Sleep #Relative to #Diet #Consumption #Mood etc