My shame.

Nothing has disturbed me more throughout my life than obligation. The words, "have" to, you "must", "need" to. These words don't ring true in my liberal lexicon. I feel unsafe next to them, like they themselves are an obligation. I believe in the idea of, "want" to, you "can" and "should" do (which is a value judgement of obligation - we are all entitled to our own opinions).

I think we all like to believe we're free. In fact, apparently: we know we are free...

You know, we have spending power... we have a voice. We can leave the country. We have rights. We have "government by the people".

In fact, I'm sure I've heard the phrase "it's a free country"
As to the above, if you think that, i will not even present a coherent argument, your just STUPID.

I have choice, I wrote this. I'm looking at universities. I'm going to go out and do something tomorrow.

However, freedom comes at a price (pun). You must pay for it. You must buy your freedom. in fact, I'm quite sure it seems reasonable to say, you pay for a level of freedom. Thus, some people are more free than others.

It's important that we realise that we cannot escape our system of money. it's a climate, a climate that's changed. We are able to afford such a greater freedom than we could, both because of technology and widening availability of jobs.

Once it's sunk in. That we are sucked in.

Take a moment and wonder how the system works?
Or, using the greatest, most free and beautiful thing on this planet, (the internet,) research it.

In a blog, it isn't reasonable to mobilize a complicated and ideologically motivated argument. Nor is it possible to sit one down and explain everything, for clarity.
But there are two arguments, against the system of money which are only too easy to explain and too logical to follow. Thus it would be silly not to express them.

Within a society it is an absolute obligation, it is a necessity, that we have a division of labour.
Quite simply, we MUST have people at the bottom slaving away on low wages and we must have people at the top. E.g. in a car company, we have people helping assemble the car. They don't get paid much because their job isn't as complex. We also have people designing them, getting paid more because they're more specialized.
Do you see what i mean. Someone has to work somewhere.

the second point is much harder to reconcile.

Profit.
Interesting word. Funnily enough. Profit actually implies obligation. If all companies need profit to pay back their loans in interest... If all companies want to expand.
Profit is what drives our money system.
You could call it greed. But that's just semantics. Not to mention, rhetoric. Persuasive language.

The profit model is very efficient, it powers innovation and competition. When it gets sticky is where we ask... what about the ethical stuff.
So...
Briefly and logically because i'm getting restless. As you might be able to tell by the increasing speed by which i tap the enter key.

It does not suit profit to protect the environment. Fish and animals are profitable. it is cheaper to dump waste rather than store it. etc.

In healthcare (more so in the usa), it is more profitable to be faster than efficient. As the social engineer fresco put it, Does the doctor think i have a bad kidney, or does he need a new yacht.

Oh, just thought. Create a virus, and a cure. release the virus and then auction the cure.
Why?
profit.

why pay worker a high wage when it is more profitable for the company to pay a low wage.
Profit
Asian sweatshops are an example of this.

The modern history of man depicts his attempt, through politics, to make money ethical.

I hope we grow up one day.