Money in America

One of the things that I find so desperately ugly about money in life is how people can and do use it to buy the immoral services of others. Whether it's someone hiring a lawyer to do some ruthless thing against someone else, or some ugly litigation for some reason, people with money can and do use such things to destroy others. Just as the most ruthless person will use a hitman, or a politican will use an army of unquestioningly loyal soldiers to do their dirty work, the person with money knoews that there's someone, somewhere, who they can buy to do whatever dirty work they need to have done. And that's really what the pecking order is about, after all. Right at the bottom of the pile is the animal that gets eaten, the slave that works for next to nothing. And so the person with money relies on the fact that some poor soul will have to pick up the tab.

As Einstein put it, Capitalism relies on an army of unemployed. Without the unemployed, the rich can't function. Because the unemployed are there to do the dirty work that the slightly better off person doesn't want to do.

But at the end of the day we're all rich, and we're all poor. Because poverty and wealth are all relative.

Heigh ho!

Isn't it odd to feel sorry for someone who has money, and who rips you off? I do. When someone who plainly has plenty of money, and a really nice house is telling you that they have no cash flow, it's quite amusing, really.

Yet that's what we all do, if we dare to admit it. Every time we get a "bargain" or find some poor soul who'll do our work for us for a pittance, as we profess our own fiscal misfortune, we play the lie that money so desperately relies on. Our lies separate us from the poor but honest friend, who has only pity for us, if we dared to look at the truth.