“People have go back to work.”
“Oh. Why is that?”
“Else they’ll starve.”
“Oh. Then give them food.”
“We can’t.”
“Because we have no food?”
“Because they won’t be able to pay.”
“Oh. Just give them money”
“Not if they didn’t WORK for it!”
“But—“
“THE SHUTDOWN WOULD BE DEADLY OK?” pic.twitter.com/4S1kIIjjGf— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) April 13, 2020
Money is a very useful imaginary concept we invented. It’s a tool. It exists to help us. We don’t exist to help it.
— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) April 14, 2020
The last one is the most important one to me. Money exists because we make it exist. It can be made to do what we need it to do.