Money is power, and power tends to corrupt. People have killed for money; anything that can drive human beings to murder each other does not deserve to be powerful.
How can we deprive money of its power? Simply put, by doing something that we should be doing anyway - eliminate scarcity. Money is powerful because it can be exchanged for scarce resources; if no scarce resources (including less-tangible resources such as labor) existed, money would be worth nothing, and those who have killed for it would receive no reward for their unjustifiable act.
That, then, is what humanity must achieve. We must possess infinite wealth, so that wealth loses all meaning, all power to compel unconscionable acts. For if we will take a life to possess that which is meaningless, then life itself is meaningless, as the act of exchange proves. We couldn't trade money for food if food wasn't worth more than money, and we couldn't trade life for money if life wasn't worth less. Therefore, if life is to mean something, money must not.
Join me now in an effort to discover ways of exterminating the limitation of worldly resources.
(Disclaimer: This and a few other ranty-toned posts from last year or earlier are evidence that I have been less mentally stable at some points in my history than is desireable; I've made much progress gettting ahold of myself since then, and I'm going to be more careful about writing things like this in future. So for now please take these old messages with a grain of salt.)
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