The Illusion Of Value

 

Let us come to terms with a truth that so many seem divest of reasoning power to grasp. Value is a human construct. There is no intrinsic value to anything; beyond those who can ascribe value toward objects and concepts. This must be understood if we as a human society are to move beyond our shallow societal concept in current use by the mass of people. Why is this important to understand? Simple, if we understand this than we are able to move into a much more reasonable territory of treatment towards our fellows and thereby a better structuring of society. We are currently in desperate need for such a restructuring in our world.

What would acknowledging this truth mean for us? Well, it would put to rest the irrational argument against fiat currency, because gold has just as much 'intrinsic value' as paper; none at all. We ascribe value to gold in as much as we ascribe value to paper or plastic; arbitrarily. This is an important thing to understand because it means many different structural changes can and should take place in our world and our economy.

As value is arbitrary, and entirely ascribed based on government and economy, we must understand that all value is thereby enforced by government force and then enacted though the economic system which the government endorses and thereby enforces it's power through force of law and arms. These things are important, because it creates a system of universal rationing that can be enforced and distributed or withheld throughout the populace through the economy. This is how the people are granted access to goods and services through the economy of rationing through a monetary rationing system enforced through the economy enforced by the power of the government.

This is and can be a 'good trick' in the sense of creating a universal rationing system so as to create cohesion and structure. However, the way in which we currently enforce said system is stacked against the mass of people towards a select few. If we understand that this is a form of rationing than we are able to operate under the reasoned understanding that a certain level of rationing should be a given, in the sense that if we lived in an acknowledged rationed economy than we would decry rationing as unjust, but since we live in a monetary rationed economy we seem to be fooled into thinking that we are 'free' of a rationed economy. This is obviously false, as monetary rationing is slightly more insidious than actual rationing, for the reason that we delude ourselves into believing that it isn't rationing. But if we are granted our pay/rations to buy/acquire our rationed portion of the economy based upon said number of rations we have been distributed, than we are still living in a 'scarcity economy' just being fooled into thinking that monetary  rationing is 'freer' than just a plain old rationed economy. It's a bate and switch, a mental trick we play on ourselves, so as to give us the illusion of freedom and equity though the 'chance of perhaps getting a larger portion of rations' through a monetary rationing system.

As such, we must come to grips with the fact that money is just a form of rationing pieces of economic involvement to the public at large; or a select group of a smaller clientele who can participate in said 'exclusive' economy of rations. Monetary rationing creates the structure of the social dimorphism of rich, middle class and poor and thereby is responsible for aspects of said disparities; it is the essence of capitalism. However, if certain rations are viewed as a given, shelter, food, water, education, healthcare, internet, basic income, overarching living wage ect, we eliminate a certain level of the inequitable nature of monetary rationing by infusing a certain levels of basic rationing into the structure of the system itself. I believe that it would be prudent to acknowledge these basic facts so as to solve one of the inevitable structural flaws deep within the system of monetary rationing itself.

This of course is a basic socialist type of tendency/criticism towards the inequity of the entirety of the capitalist system. However, if we are to understand that the new social structure of the now budding world culture/economy is anything to tell, we are in for a vast level of problems if we do not begin undergoing a vast level of change throughout the entirety of the world economic system as a whole. I do understand that these things are problematic without a world government, but as I have posted before it is a thing that we as humans should be calling for and structuring so as to begin to enact mass world reforms so as to reign in the corporate state's overreaching power grabs.