As others have pointed out, profit is not the reason for trade, and profit is not the reason for currency to exist.
Understand that you are coming from a place of having grown up under capitalism and anytime you questioned it, or anytime you saw it questioned, those were the responses. “Of COURSE we need to profit! Why would LITERALLY ANYONE do LITERALLY ANYTHING without profit? We’d all still be cave people like those DAMN DIRTY COMMIES”
But my brother in Christ, you’ve never profited before! The owner class profits. The owners get to take all the wealth generated by the workers, and fucking keep it for their own power! It’s that simple. We don’t get it, they do. The profit we generate for them doesn’t protect us. It doesn’t enrich us. They can take away our wages at anytime, they can manipulate their markets and often gamble with our nest eggs. They set up systems where they can rob us of any money we did not allow to remain under their control (civil forfeiture), they allow us access to the illusion of wealth in exchange for all of wages for the rest of our lives. And they don’t even take good care of us to do it.
It’s all a scam brother, whether or not it’s a good system doesn’t matter if it’s allowed to be captured and manipulated. It’s a trap, don’t be a sucker.
As others have pointed out, profit is not the reason for trade, and profit is not the reason for currency to exist.
Understand that you are coming from a place of having grown up under capitalism and anytime you questioned it, or anytime you saw it questioned, those were the responses. “Of COURSE we need to profit! Why would LITERALLY ANYONE do LITERALLY ANYTHING without profit? We’d all still be cave people like those DAMN DIRTY COMMIES”
But my brother in Christ, you’ve never profited before! The owner class profits. The owners get to take all the wealth generated by the workers, and fucking keep it for their own power! It’s that simple. We don’t get it, they do. The profit we generate for them doesn’t protect us. It doesn’t enrich us. They can take away our wages at anytime, they can manipulate their markets and often gamble with our nest eggs. They set up systems where they can rob us of any money we did not allow to remain under their control (civil forfeiture), they allow us access to the illusion of wealth in exchange for all of wages for the rest of our lives. And they don’t even take good care of us to do it.
It’s all a scam brother, whether or not it’s a good system doesn’t matter if it’s allowed to be captured and manipulated. It’s a trap, don’t be a sucker.