cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agoElon Musk Made Off With $16 Billion of Taxpayer Moneynewrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square80linkfedilinkarrow-up1681arrow-down13
arrow-up1678arrow-down1external-linkElon Musk Made Off With $16 Billion of Taxpayer Moneynewrepublic.comcantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square80linkfedilink
minus-squareeatshitforeverbutinaniceway@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·3 days agothat’s not how money works. it works on social consensus. if we all agree tomorrow to give each other bread and pay our landlords’ mortgages in exchange for parker brothers barbie™©® monopoly™©® money, that’s real money. who has it is who we agree have it. the dead in our culture have nothing.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoCool, cool. Then Take everything he has, claw back what he stole, use the rest to repair as much of the damage as possible.
minus-squareeatshitforeverbutinaniceway@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agofuck damage. new society where this shit isn’t possible.
that’s not how money works. it works on social consensus. if we all agree tomorrow to give each other bread and pay our landlords’ mortgages in exchange for parker brothers barbie™©® monopoly™©® money, that’s real money. who has it is who we agree have it.
the dead in our culture have nothing.
Cool, cool. Then Take everything he has, claw back what he stole, use the rest to repair as much of the damage as possible.
fuck damage. new society where this shit isn’t possible.