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Among the torrent of material presented in this post are some true historical facts. However, it contains almost entirely the musings of the writer, unsupported by any serious documented research whatsoever. Thus, the writer’s conclusions cannot reveal a believable pathway from the mass unhappiness and burdens of the 99% whose labor is exploited by the handful of capitalists controlling the rest of us. Currency evolved as the medium of exchange in response to the requirements of growing communities, fueling a system of international commerce that is vast and growing larger by the day.

Post-capitalism will arise eventually, in my opinion. It may present a more favorable framework than the oligarchic form that Christofer and I agree exists today, and which is failing. Alternatively, it might generate less favorable outcomes for the vast majority of the world’s eight billion (and growing) inhabitants. It’s not predetermined. But what is all but predetermined is that the present world order will fight like viscous monsters to preserve the status quo and most of the victims of that struggle, as always, will be same victims of capitalism who toil endlessly in tedious labor and wage-slave poverty today.

It’s just not as simple as Christofer suggests.

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