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The rich frugal businessman who is 'cheap' is *not* the problem. If he is that stingy with his money, eating mcdonalds everyday despite his wealth, imagine how efficiently he's utilizing the rest of his money. This is deserved capitalism in its truest sense.

However, not all rich people are capitalists. Power manipulates the capitalist system just as easily as it manipulates other systems. "Crony capitalism" is like a trojan horse.

This is the type of person who'd burn massive amounts of cash on luxury items purely for status and the appearance of power. This is the 'wasteful' money.

If that money were given instead to the stingy guy, that money would be used a lot better. However, these stingy guys are selected specifically for their ability to stretch a dollar. They're given just enough to create a system for the population to not revolt.

It's like if I had 100 dollars and gave 10 to John to deal with a bunch of people and took 90 to burn because I know rob can only afford to burn 80 dollars. I chose john specifically because some other idiot would need 50 and still have a revolt.

When money is used as tokenized force projecting power over long distances, the capitalists are like the best swordsman. The one who can take on 50 men. The one promoted to general.

Money's force projecting power is depending on people's faith in it. It gains in mass the more it's believed in. The USD has high mass, the peso less so. Gold has literal mass. Bitcoin is like a quantum particle.

It's "sharpness" is correlated with Faith so it's neutral. It's like a weapon that can be used to attack but also protect and defend. Unlike say...a serrated sword christened Blooddrinker at its forging.

Money just wants to maximize efficiency. Power is the bloodstained sword that ALWAYS cut the world into "Me" and "You".

Businesses having power similar to governments is a feature of human society, not a bug. It's when the generals are convinced to turn their spears away from the people and towards the fat kings that change has always happened.

Money is the Neutral God because its power comes entirely from our faith in it. It's purely driven by human energy.

Even as I complain about how the money system is unfair, I still hope that my well diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, gold, and a little crypto will come out ahead and bring me financial freedom which requires the existing money system to exist.

Theoretically everyone can just ignore the fat kings and their fake money and create their own system. The spears turn to dust when ignored. Though because you have to know "where" to start, this creation must be a 'fork' of reality.

I wouldn't want to reset the world into a "fair" state. With 8 billion people my house would suddenly be owned by lots of people.

To solve the New Money Game problem requires solving this forking problem. You have to KNOW how much you stand to gain and lose. (If you live in the U.S. no matter how low you are, you'll still lose)

People who live in the U.S. who want to topple the existing system without a clear idea of an alternative one come across as stupid and hypocritical because they haven't done the math to see that they'd *all* come out worse.

They can't even pick up a spear let alone be the general that leads the world to a brave new tomorrow. All they have is a sense of unfairness which is usually true but difficult to articulate.

The false god of Money is unable to deal with this. It says "Don't bring up a problem unless you also have a solution." is a great thing for a Spartan Dad to tell his First Born Son to build character but is a terrible way to understand the nature of life and suffering.

And so.. one madly tears at the tubes coming in and out of ones body, unaware that those very tubes give life. "I don't understand, but I don't want to feel this pain."