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jancsika
> Thus, a large quantity of money makes small transactions within the price
> range almost inevitable.
How do you know this?
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whisk3rs
Because the other side of the coin is that you never get a bunch of penny
rounds going on a dollar bill. Also, large transactions typically aren't
small.
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scythe
The last link in the story is this: [
> _The body’s self-control for the moment is not strong enough to prevent
> itself from buying the world with its wealth. And so, in the big
> picture, however much we disapprove, we are all part of the problem.
> There’s no need to be part of the solution, because it is indeed part of the
> solution. A world in which some of the wealth is on offer as freely as the
> air is on offer as freely as the water, as readily as an iPhone is offered,
> as the iMac is offered, seems to be a world of wonderful abundance, and one
> in which everyone has enough to eat and live in a beautiful home and drive
> a nice car. It is not a world in which we are poor as a people. It is a
> world in which we are rich as a people._
The key paragraph comes at the end:
> _We can go to the ends of the earth to get out of the way of the billions
> of hands that are reaching for the objects we already own. We can get out of
> the way by asking our neighbors or our parents or our children to borrow
> them. We can stop giving our money away, taking an interest in other
> people’s money, and stop trying to figure out how to get our money. We can
> stop trying to steal other people’s wealth and start stealing it instead. We
> can stop protecting our wealth and start destroying it. We can destroy
> ourselves. We can do it because our wealth is already in our hands. We can
> do it because, if we choose to do so, it is far more effective to start a
> fire on your own rather than set one for someone else
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