Will we accept an Equal Money System?

So, the important question is: Do we need all of this? Do we really need all the stuff that we are at the moment consuming?

That is an important question to consider when looking at the implementation of an EMS, because ‘Why aren’t we living in an EMS already?’ – is it because we actually need consumerism? Do we really need to consume at this rate?

Because, I assume that we wouldn’t be living in this current system, if we did not want it this way. And if we agree with our current system of consumerism, then we also agree with the consequences thereof, which is that we all have to work to keep up with producing the products that we so desire, and to keep on inventing more and more ‘new’ products to consume, so that we can live in our secluded little bubble wherein we can satisfy our own personal desires, completely separate and shut off from the rest of the world, consuming the products that are created in this world, and we also do our part by going to work five days to seven for pretty much our entire lives. And so by everybody working constantly in this society, we are able to keep our consummation–level high, because products are being produced at a high rate, as there are ‘night workers’ in every factory as well. This is what exists currently, so that means that this is what we want, this is our will in action. We want stress, fear, anxiety, depression, worries, exhaustion, burn-out, tiredness, headaches, ulcers, poverty and fear thereof – so that we can have our excitement, desires, positivity, ‘shop-till-you-drop’-ing, fame, Hollywood, celebrities, strive for success, competition, medals, prizes, promotions, lottery, kings, queens, religions, and so on.

This is what we allow reality to be, a reality wherein we exist in constant fear of losing our money, because we know that the system will not take care of us if we do, people will reject us, society will reject us, because we all look down on those who have nothing, which is due to our consumerist mentality of desiring ‘more’ and ‘higher’, only respecting, admiring, liking and noticing those with money.

It’s a sad thing to realize that this is the world that we dreamed for ourselves, that this is apparently the best we can do. That we are apparently unable and incapable of stopping starvation, war and poverty, when this world is in our very hands. We glorify ‘the human’ so much, we see the human as ‘more special’ than all other life forms – if this is true then why can’t we seem to sort out this shit on our planet? If we are so ‘evolved’ then why are we so stuck in our current system that is spiraling out of control? - inevitably falling to its destruction, as its very nature as consumerism isn’t in fact practically livable, because we’re taking more than we give back, not realizing that there’s only one planet, so it will only be able to give what it receives.

In an Equal Money System, we will no longer HAVE TO work - we will work obviously to be able to produce what we need to in fact survive in this reality, but at a minimum, because consumerism will no longer be supported. So, looking at our current system, as what I described before, we may have a problem, because our ‘human nature’ that apparently ‘needs’ to consume, does not in fact correlate with what an EMS presents. What the current reality show us is that, in spite of all the stress, fears, anxiety, depressions, illnesses, poverty, abuse, war, and all other problems that we face in our world today, we do not see a reason to stop, we simply don’t seem to be interested in stopping and turning a new page, because apparently being able to consume is much more important than stopping the bullshit that comes with it, even if it means the destruction of the very planet that we live on, and much of the beings on it as well, and of our physical bodies that are being polluted from every angle.

How will the human handle equality? Is the human capable of accepting/living equality? Is the human able/willing to stop its destructive nature? – or will we continue to accept it as ‘our nature’?

It is time to truly honor our ‘human nature’ as beings who are able to create. Time to create heaven on earth instead of the hell that we have created thus far. Time for an Equal Money System that will respect and honor all life, to prove to ourselves that we are in fact capable of much more than consumerism.

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Consumerism as destruction of Earth – Can we blame Corporations?

What has already become obvious to all of us is that we are depleting the earth and polluting the earth, due to consumerism.

Because of our individual desire to consume, we don’t care about the environment, so the pollution of earth is what we allow to exist in reality. Thus it is no wonder that the corporations that sell us the products we desire to consume don’t care about the environment, because we don’t.

Do we really expect the corporations to go and say ‘hey but wait a moment, we need to be kind to nature and make sure we don’t pollute when creating products’? That is just naïve of us to assume and expect that, because if we take an honest look at ourselves as our consumerist behavior wherein we only really consider our personal desire for consuming things and NOT the environment, then we see what it is that we truly expect from the corporations, and that is to just make sure that we, the consumers, get what we want, and that we get it ASAP, no matter what kind of measures/materials have to be used to make/get it, no matter if earth gets polluted. Because when it really comes down to it, we consider our desires as superior to life as earth and we would not be willing to give up our desires so that earth has a chance to ‘breathe’. If we were really willing to give up our desires to give life/earth a chance, we would have already done so, yet here we are.

So, it is easy to go and point the finger of blame at the corporations that are in fact polluting and depleting earth on a massive scale, because, yes they are the ones actually creating the products and taking from the earth what they need to be able to create all of the plastic that is required to make the wrappings of our precious products and then dumping the used plastic back to the earth, in this destroying entire ecosystems. Though we need to be serious here in the point of why these corporations take to such destructive measures in the first place, because it is in fact because of the consumer’s lack of patience and desire for new shit, always faster and faster and more and more, in always more variations, that the corporations as people starting a business that want to earn money by selling a product feel the need to keep up with the consumers wants, needs and desires because if they don’t they’ll go bankrupt. So in a way the producers feel forced to not care about what is best for nature or the animals when they use nature and the animals in producing their products, because the consumer with it’s never ending needs, wants and desires , won’t let them.

Also the consumer will in most cases only go for the cheapest, easiest way to obtain/purchase a product as we only really care about the money in our pockets, and that will always be a product that is made within abusing the earth/animals as this particular company that made the cheap product only looks at what is the fastest/easiest/cheapest way to create a product so that it can sell the product cheap so that everyone will want to buy the product. This way of looking at creating products inevitably leads to abuse as what is actually best for life as the earth and all beings existing on it is not considered because that would take time to investigate, research and experiment. And in the current system time is money…

So because the consumer will mostly go for the cheapest product, because the consumer does not actually consider what is best for life as he/she is too busy blaming the corporations for the abuse of earth and the beings on it, there exist a competition between companies that sell the same product, as all the other companies will also feel the need to ‘keep up’ as in creating their products faster and cheaper otherwise everyone will buy from the ‘other guy’ whose products are the cheapest leaving them not earning enough money to survive, so then obviously this results in pretty much all corporations/companies that create products abusing earth/life.

This is a vicious cycle wherein the corporations producing the products only support the desires within the consumers, because they adhere to them, the corporations look at ‘what do human beings WANT and DESIRE’ because they too just want to earn money to be able to survive in this world. And so because the consumer is only supported in his/her desires and wants, he/she will only want more and more and more, and that is what is busy happening in the world currently.

More and more and more products are being created, there is always more exotic and different foods found in the supermarket that wasn’t here a few years ago and especially with regards to technology as computers, cell phones and all sorts of applications that are constantly ‘evolving’ and ‘changing’ in a faster pace than ever before. This is all due to this ‘vicious cycle’ wherein human beings are only supported in their ever growing desires and wants, that in turn supports the corporations as the producers to feel the need to produce more and more shit, because it is what the human wants/desires. It is obvious that this system can only end in self destruction as the desires of the human as their ‘consumerist behavior’ will accumulate to such an extent that it will devour the planet we exist on.

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What is consumerism?

The word ‘consumerism’ is a word that has influenced our lives and the world we live in extensively, in the news the people living in the country are often referred to as ‘the consumer’ when they talk about ‘protecting the consumer’ for example, because apparently ‘the consumer’ (which is us) needs to be protected by ‘the producer’. This means that we need to be protected against being abused and taken advantage of by the business corporate executives (= the ones ‘pulling the strings’ and making the decisions of what we buy each day in our reality to survive or enjoy ourselves).

We’ve actually come to accept this situation wherein we are in fact being ‘taken advantage of’ as in being manipulated, lied to, cheated and abused by major corporations that make and sell us the products that we buy as our basic necessities (and much more). We find it normal because it is all we hear and see, like the commercials on television and in magazines, we are aware that they use subliminal messaging and manipulation and deception techniques to get us human beings to buy their products and to desire buying their products, in fact every single commercial uses this technique of deception and manipulation. We also often hear stories in the news of a ‘cover up affaire’ that has been ‘uncovered’/discovered about for example a pharmaceutical business using damaging substances in their medicine for whatever purpose that always has to do with profit and selling more of whatever it is they want to sell, or just think about the chemicals and hormones that animals are injected with to make them fatter or to give the meat a ‘fresh’ colour when it is in the stores to make people want to buy it more, or what about all the sugar that is deliberately added to most of the processed foods that you find in stores to make people addicted to the foods and make them want to buy it more. In all these examples the people who make, produce and sell the food, aren’t considering what is best for the ones buying and consuming it at all, quite the opposite actually.

Within this consumerist society we cannot trust the food we eat (especially) because we cannot trust those that sell us the food because the companies producing/manufacturing and selling the food do it from the starting point of only making money out of it for their personal happiness and wealth (=money), in this basically going to any lengths to just make the consumer buy their products, regardless if the product will in fact support the one who buys it in their physical health and growth. This is also done with all other products that is being sold to us, where for example clothes or equipment deliberately has a short expiration date, it is designed to break easily just so that the product will be sold more, though it is food that actually affect us the most because it actually poisons our human physical bodies.

So, therefore, we consumers need protection from the corporations as the abusers and we trust our governments as those in power, making the decisions, to do this for us, to protect us, in this clearly we are not considering and realizing that those in power are also just looking out for their own personal wellbeing (=money), and therefore they are willing and able to ‘turn a blind eye’ to what they know is actually happening as manipulation, cheating and deception by the major producing corporations because when it comes down to it, it is always simply those who have the most money that are truly in power, that are respected and protected, and that would be the producers, not the consumers. So basically this means that we’re being duped from all sides.

So how did we come to simply accept this situation as being ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’? how come we don’t and have never stood up from this within the realization that this is simply an unacceptable way of living? When asking myself this question, I answer to myself ‘because this is just the way it is, and who am I to change it? This world is after all not in my hands, I am but the consumer’, and in this answer is where the problem lies, because I have accepted myself as ‘but a consumer’. To understand the problem in this we must look at the word ‘consumer’ and ‘consumerism’, what does it mean to be ‘a consumer’? the ‘definition’ of ‘consumer/consumerism’ as what we’ve accepted ourselves to be/become is a being/entity that only takes but doesn’t give, a being that ‘takes’ without considering where what I take comes from, or how it is made or how it got here, because ‘the consumer’ only consumes and leaves the ‘producing’ up to ‘the producer’, thus the consumer is a being that exist in total unawareness of the effects and consequences of its ‘consummation’, and this is how we have allowed ourselves to define ourselves, this is the self-definition that we have come to accept of ourselves, a definition that is being supported by our own governments that use the word ‘consumer’ to define its citizens.

So, in being ‘a consumer’ and believing myself to be but ‘the consumer’ I place myself in a very inferior position, where I just have to ‘swallow’ and ‘take’ what the producer, as the corporations, give me within and as the products that they sell to me. Consumerism/consuming is then the implied and suggested way of living in this society that is founded on the principle of ‘consumerism’, wherein we consumers have become consumed by consuming products, we have become the addicts of the products that are being sold to us, as if we are attempting to ‘hush’ and ‘appease’ our experience of accepted inferiority by having allowed ourselves to be reduced by society to ‘but a consumer’ as a being that exists in complete unawareness of how and why everything exists and of where everything that exists comes from and of the consequences of our production and consummation on the planet and all beings that exist. Instead of realizing our shared responsibility towards the world/reality we live/exist in and standing up from this perceived and induced inferiority position as a being that stands as self responsibility, standing within and as full awareness of all that goes on in this world, to ensure that no more cheating, manipulating and deceiving for the sake of personal interest, where what is best for all is not considered, happens ever again.

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