Money As A Caste Tool

Later, with the rise of civilisations there was a caste system. Depending on which caste you were born into, you received different privilege and access to goods. Money As A Caste Tool "The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing." ~ John Berger I contend that money is a disguised caste tool. Consider: Money neatly stratifies society. Those at the top get the best foods and cars. Those at the bottom are forced to eat pesticide-laden and artificial foods with low nutritive value. Those at the top get acres of living space per person. Those at the bottom are crammed 12 to a room. There are restaurants and entertainment places where only the very wealthy are allowed to enter. All the entertainments are graded by which strata are permitted to enjoy them. In England your caste is determined by your accent. However, this does not help peg a foreigner. Money lets others know your proper status, even when they have never heard of you or your family before. Money ensures your descendants will enjoy your same privileged caste status. You can transfer it to them. If you give them enough, even if they do absolutely nothing to earn more, they can become even wealthier than you just on the interest. Interest on the public debt is tribute the non-rich pay in perpetuity to the rich to reward them for having rich ancestors. The deadbeat bond holders are a much bigger drain on the government than the collective welfare moms. The difference is the law is so rigged that the government can reduce the money flow to the welfare mom, but not the rich interest leech. Just as in a traditional caste system, there are bars to keep people from crossing caste lines. For example, you need an education to earn serious money, yet that education is so expensive only wealthy families can afford to educate their young. On the other hand, a wealthy person can get relatively easily get millions in loans to bail them out should they get into financial trouble. There are welfare systems designed to counterbalance the gravity of money which tends to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, however the rich always ensure the poor remain uncomfortably poor. The easiest way for a high caste person to feel exalted is to make someone lower on the scale even more miserable. "People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States that will the People who supply all the material and do all the work." ~ Thomas Alva Edison If Bill Gates or a movie star walked into a McDonald's restaurant, he does not need to pay like anyone else. This is a privilege of rank. http://mindprod.com/money/capitalism.html

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