Comment Re:actually, every human endeavour IS about money (Score 1) 317
I completely agree with the monetary system in places that it should be applied. Money works great with goods and services. But the monetary system only exists because of an idealism that created the proper environment for it to exist. The first, best environment we know to have allowed capitalism to flourish was created by a group of idealists we call our founding fathers.
Just like you can't buy love or happiness, you can't buy idealism.
Being an idealist doesn't fill your head with a cotton candy, fluffy, sweet perception of the world. That's optimism. Idealism is a cold, cynical and gritty perception of things as they are but more clearly what they should be.
I'm just an idealist. I refuse to surrender and subscribe to a brand of reality that is handed to me. The most sober consideration of money in this world is that it is a tool like any other. But, in this case, the inventor could trump the tool at anytime.
Just like you can't buy love or happiness, you can't buy idealism.
Being an idealist doesn't fill your head with a cotton candy, fluffy, sweet perception of the world. That's optimism. Idealism is a cold, cynical and gritty perception of things as they are but more clearly what they should be.
I'm just an idealist. I refuse to surrender and subscribe to a brand of reality that is handed to me. The most sober consideration of money in this world is that it is a tool like any other. But, in this case, the inventor could trump the tool at anytime.
