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Image description: Unless a social space is designed to be deliberately hostile to the ethos of popularity, concentration of power, and dominance, then it serves as a hunting grounds for predators.

If you believe evangelism is a good thing, you are a Christian supremacist.

It is your imperative as a Christian to fix your heart.

Serve people without any expectation.

He said we would know you by your works.

Good evening, fellows.

This post is inspired by Simone Seol. You can find her post linked in the comments.

The ugly truth about enterprise is that most people are engaging with it out of compulsion/addiction (because they’re deeply uncomfortable with stillness).

Let’s back up a little bit to contextualize.

When I say “engaging [in enterprise],” I’m referring to the professional. I’m not referring to the customer/consumer/patient/etc.

A passing familiarity with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is required to appreciate the difference between the compulsion to survive and conscious choice.

Everyone is compelled to participate in the economy insomuch as our survival requires it.

All other participation in the exchange of goods, services, currency, etc. is voluntary. Our natural inclination is to distribute excess to those who need it (rather than waste).

So why do we see wealth hoarding? Why does the American economy revolve around the concept of amassing wealth?

Because humans are born ignorant and must operate on beliefs until they have witnessed the subject of their imaginations.

We are taught to believe that we are safer when we have more wealth. Although this is not inherently true, we believe it (as a society). Some are, without a doubt, reading this and thinking that sounds absurd. This is how deeply we are indoctrinated.

The systems we are at the mercy of—such as the government—have made this falsehood true by engineering a society that cruelly and unusually punishes those without excess wealth.

Who benefits most from the majority believing that lacking funds is a moral failing?

I think the answer is clear, but my life experience has taught me that the things I think are clear are not always clear to others.

The wealthiest are who benefit the most. They benefit to a degree that we literally cannot even fathom because of its sheer volume.

I propose that any serious American politician immediately adopts the cause of income and wealth freezes and caps. There’s no reason to be especially stringent because the worst offenders are so terribly far above the petit bourgeoisie. An individual’s annual income has no reason to go above $10 million. An individual has no reason to amass more than $100 million in wealth.

For those who have never made more than $100k annually, what would you do with $10k?

We’ll tackle the enabling and complicity of the nonprofit sector another time.

Thank you for taking time to read. Be excellent to yourself and each other.