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Antifar posted...

Romulox28 posted...

i have some far left friends (like communist) and they always talk about how money is basically just a tool for exploitation, in an ideal utopia it'd be "for each according to his needs from each according to his ability" or whatever the phrase is, etc.

but then they act like money is everything, so money is simultaneously the most important and least important thing to exist.

I think the distinction you're missing here is between "is" (money is deeply important in our current society) and "should" (it should not be like this)

good point. i think i get tripped up when i hear most far left (or even far right) rhetoric because so much of it is rooted in (their versions of) utopian societies and how things "should" be, when how things really are is the more or less centerist reality we live in
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