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Cash
As is well known, the money is lying on the street, meanwhile also with us. The most recent walk brought in 23 cents; which reminds me of my vacations in the USA, where we could regularly collect money on walks and even made it a little competition to see who could find the most in one day. It would be interesting to find out when and under what social conditions one can collect small change on the street.
However, this should not be used as an argument to abolish cash altogether, because that would be a further disenfranchisement and a kind of modern enslavement of us citizens if we no longer even have the right to throw money out the window. Getting rid of cash is clearly another step towards total control.
consumer
We citizens took the first appropriate steps out of sheer convenience or sheer unreasonableness by allowing ourselves to be branded consumers without any protest. Now that the term "consumption" has increasingly negative connotations, we are given a more euphemistic label and further demoted to consumers. And so that some of us don't feel so bad, we can also be "voters" for a few days now and then - who or what is elected is now also decided for us by others. It's amazing what a few fellow citizens can do with the sovereign - actually all of us. I've commented on this a number of times in posts: The main thing is cheap! and without your own effort.
Read
The last few books I've read recently showed a surprising number of parallels to my own book — which shouldn't be surprising since the authors not only live in the same world, but also in the same time.
So I will now delve into a book that tries to explain why we “Westerners” have become the craziest but also one of the most successful group of people at the moment. This book has Joseph Henrich written and titled: “The WEIRDest People in the World” (2020).
