• JungleJim
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    1 year ago

    Why’s everything gotta be about money? Good things happen without it. Rain falls, feeds a fruit tree, makes a fruit, I eat it, poop out the seeds, new fruit tree grows. Money doesn’t fall from trees, but I can’t eat money.

    The whole system is poorly prioritized to protect people’s things instead of people. Even then it does a poor job and only protects the things that belong to those with the most things. It’s not even about those people, just their wealth, because if somebody else got their wealth no one would care about them anymore.

    I don’t care about communists or capitalists or any ists you can name. To hell with Mao and Thatcher and Lenin and Reagan and Trump and Biden. Fuck em. My question is why can we always find money for war, and for rich people to do stupid shit, but never enough for health care, or food for hungry children, or anything like that. Fuck anybody okay with hungry babies.

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      1 year ago

      Eating and apple and pooping out the seeds might grow new trees, but none of those trees are likely to make apples like you ate.

      Money is a convenient way to trade your work or skills for someone else’s. Like the guy who grafts apple tree scions together to make the apples that taste good grow in their orchard.

      Now when the guy who knows how to grow hood apple trees decides he doesn’t want to compete against anybody else’s apples and squashes them, we have problems, and need rules to keep that from happening.

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        1 year ago

        I like how you equated money as a goal to money as a tool and that because the latter is a good idea then the first one must also be a good idea.

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        1 year ago

        I found this list of true-to-seed fruits and vegetables I thought you might find interesting. I found it on The Spruce.

        Certain heirloom apples, such as Antonovka

        Polyembryonic mango seeds

        Lemon

        Lime

        Orange

        Peach

        Papaya

        Apricot

        Nectarine

        Heirloom tomatoes

        There are tons of other heirloom vegetables, I don’t know why they only mentioned tomatoes on their list but yeah.