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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

money is just a way to track power, goodwill, and reciprocity living in the wild isn’t free either. stuff comes from people and work money is natural enough. but what’s not natural is when power, goodwill, and reciprocity are disembodied and intermediated to an extreme https://t.co/iwlfhhiqQB

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

"earn your living," the most obscene phrase in the english language

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

when power, goodwill, and reciprocity become wholly disembodied from living relationships, living in a village, when one man can own a billion more of these tracking things than another, when it becomes calculated to precision, social bonds weaken

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

i respect money, but money can be taken to an extreme the mandate of money runs away, and we lose all sense of value — we lose our very own confidence that there was another way to live once because it doesn’t seem realistic

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

It’s A Wonderful Life is a beloved, old movie about a very old fashioned moral that social bonds can keep a town going, and celebrating that dense network of relationships

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

the web doesn’t always match, in fact it often doesn’t match the single minded drive to make more money but it’s imperative becomes slightly different: not to maximise and colonise but just to survive, in a way that feels alive https://t.co/M3XUKtb13Z

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

people here (asheville) seem to have such a different relationship to money it’s like they want money to then use for stuff it’s so different from.. the mandate of capitalism where it’s just.. get more money for more. maximise

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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 1 year ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

otoh, the wholesale rejection of money is itself ungrounded https://t.co/HSBavCtiEu

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