Quote from: Montell Williams on July 09, 2012, 09:20 pmSimple answer: Money works by you being a slave.The banks issue out currency. They simply type it up on their computers by the billions and issue it out to whoever they so choose. So where does that currency get it's value from if it takes the banks zero energy to create it? The value comes from you and I who have to work for it. It is our labour and creative energy that backs fiat currency. And so the most successful state will be whichever one can dominate, manipulate and deceive their own people into lifetimes of slavery and absolute submissiveness to the state. This is why governments operate in secrecy, their worst enemies are the masses of clueless, ignorant sheep.Let's pretend for a second that the state is a corporation and its fiat currency is its stock. What happens when people own a lot of stock from one corporation? They of course want it to go up in value. So why would it be any different for people who have a lot of money or who are already well established in life? It's not. People who have a lot invested in fiat currency will always fight to ensure the safety of their investment. This is why anything that weakens the currency or the state will be fought against by those in positions of power and even by people who are just happy with their own current circumstances. Some of the things that harm fiat currency off the top of my head are dissent, rebellion, mind-expanding drugs, unemployment, theft etc.If you are unhappy with the current state of politics, where we can only choose between a few handpicked corporate puppets who are nothing more than theatrical chimps, the real way to protest is to stop working for their fiat currency, commit rebellious acts against those in power, and to force your government to expend as much energy as possible. Weaken them financially, physically and morally. And most importantly inform as many sheep as possible to the fact that fiat currency runs on slavery. If they are financially stable of course they will ignore you but one day they may wake up and remember what you told them.It's all about getting an idea out and hoping that it spreads in order to weaken and (hopefully one day) topple all of these tyrannical regimes.What do you suggest we do to obtain what we need, barter? Or move to an entirely resource based economy? It's a wonderful idea but we've seen the consequences when the means of production are placed at the behest of the state...V.