The Unaskable Question: Late Capitalism A Survival Guide

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Now the reason this is an unaskable question is because lay capitalism requires this scarcity mentality. And when you have a scarcity mentality, you have the capacity to wall people off from something and then charge a huge premium for that. And they think it's worth a huge premium because the think they think the thing they think they want is on the other side of that wall and it's scarce and it's hard to get. Therefore, they need to spend a lot of money to get it.

If you stop and ask for just a few moments, as we will today, what is the source of wealth? Then it becomes possible that all of the sudden that scarcity either goes away or is weakened or becomes ephemeral and you go, "Hey, wait a second. This whole system is starting to look a little crazy." It's the same thing as saying in, you know, before the Reformation, like why do we need a pope? Not mentioned in the Bible, like not like where did this pope guy come from, right?

And you go, oh, hey, wait a second. Like that is an unaskable question. You can argue about theology all you want, but you can't ask that question. In the late capitalist ethos, the question that you can't ask because it throws everything else into contrast and it makes everything else look suspicious and dubious is what is the source of wealth?

We have to already know that answer. And of course that answer is money. However you get it, whatever you do, however it's structured. And there's many ways to do this.

And we'll argue about that endlessly. This is why it's confusing to us. Like if you look back in Catholic history, they argued about I mean theology was the only thing they argued about. Like these were brilliant people making brilliant arguments about theology.

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