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Originally Posted by MotherBear

Hi Duane

I wouldn?t totally agree that money always finds its way to those who can manage it and utilise it. Look at all the lottery winners who?ve won vast sums and simply blown the lot ? completely wasted it. And there are others who earn very good salaries, but still haven?t got 2 cents to rub together because they just can?t hang onto it. It burns a whole in their pocket.

Well I think you proved my point MotherBear. If a person wins millions in a lottery and they lose it within a week, a month or a year then its clearly left the "unworthy" person and found it's way to the "proper" person.


I've been meaning to try to explain the concept of money to you all so here's a try...

Let's clear up a few things. When you have $100 or $500 NZD sitting in your wallet or purse what do those pieces of paper mean?

For a person with a primitive understanding of money, it means exchanging a $100 bill for perhaps a cart full of groceries.

For a more sophisticated person with a more advanced understanding of money, a $100 bill might be a unit of exchange to acquire items or an instrument of investment that can grow to a larger amounts of money when properly managed.

For me, a $100 NZD note (or $100 USD note) is a WORTHLESS piece of paper issued by a bankrupt central bank. People seem to spend countless hours trying to accumulate more pieces of paper or add more computer generated journal entries which designate how much paper notes you "own." Any NZD/USD/BP/EURO note is a worthless piece of paper which people have been conditioned to accept for the fruits of their labor.

So a real understanding of "money" a.k.a paper notes is that it is nothing more than a unit measure of a man's or woman's daily labor.

If I were to walk into a town square with $50000 NZD in cash, I could conceivable compel people to do all sorts of silly and crazy things in exchange for those paper notes.

So when I talk about vast amounts of money finding its way into the proper hands what I'm really talking about is control of vast amount of human labor. Whether this "money" compels people to change environmental laws, evokes political champions, or compels a person to draw a work of art or sing a song; "money" is all about control of human labor.

When Dawn speaks of art, it seems to escape her that perhaps the greatest work of art is this fanciful control of vast amounts of human labour around the world by a handful of people in partnership with a handful of central banks.

Isn't the point of art to inspire or influence people? The whole "money" system seems to inspire, influence and compel the worlds population.

The ExPat