What does your first sentence mean?
Do you believe there is only collusion and no competition?
Back when currencies were backed by real assets, they needed to do what you wrote, today they can just steal value by inflation, taxes, tax shelters and exemptions for the rich, and control of prices through fiat future markets with no delivery.
No need for crashes anymore, and they can also prevent crashes under current conditions.
Dog eat dog means that you have no friends in business.
All crashes have occurred to serve the purposes of those that profit by causing them.
By continuing to work, while not paying for anything, we make ourselves immune to the banksters, and their 'market' manipulations.
"By continuing to work"
"while not paying for anything"
"we make ourselves immune to the banksters, and their 'market' manipulations"
The slavery you reference is our lot in life, somebody has to gather the nuts, if we are gonna eat nuts.
As I want more out of life than nuts, I agree to build houses so that the shoe makers, et al, may make shoes.
As long as workers continue to do the work, crapitalism can fall into the fiery pits of hell, as it should, imo.
How do you figure that a general worker's strike wouldn't free us from the crapitalusts?
If we refuse to work for them, while continuing to work for the other workers, accomplished by simply refusing to join into the banking game, the goods will continue to be on the shelves for consumption, as if everything was craptastically fantastic.
In the short term, constraint will have to be shown.
In the long term, we retire at 50 having never had to worry about paying rent, or buying groceries.
We don't retire to a few 10's of thousands, we retire to a world where EVERYTHING is free.
I don't think many people will continue the status quo once they learn the options that actually being free of coercive control offers.
How do you think you could retire to a world where everything is free?
Workers' strike is one of the things that should be done, and strike is the opposite of work.
All the dissonance from your previous reply still stands.
How do you think that I can't?
I think your dissonance is in saying that a strike is the opposite of work.
I clearly stated that the strike would only apply to the banking aspects, everybody still goes to work, they just don't pay for things they get from the shelves.
If I have misinterpreted your words, please clarify.
I don't have time to be gaslighted, tyvm.
Strike is the opposite of work.
What you mean is a strike in a sense of a working strike. An oxymoron.
I guess what is clear for you is not clear for me.
Do you mean a workers' ban on the banking sector?
Cryptocurrencies make it more possible than before, but are still far from acceptable enough.
When the workers will want to buy groceries, they will most probably need to buy them with fiat, which comes from the banks.
The banks own and control big enough portion of agriculture, to make a ban on the banks like you propose, a hunger strike.
Ok, what you are missing is the 'stop paying' part of the equation.
I know you have been indoctrinated into beliebing that crapitalism and trading are the only options, but that is not true, it was never true, and more folks used to know that it wasn't true before the forces of crapitalism killed, imprisoned, or dumbed down by 'educating' the rest of us.
Luckily, I broke lose.
Here, watch this movie,...
https://steemit.com/anarchy/@gutter-films/xl3fbh40
It will show you what worker solidarity is all about.
In a practical, applicable way.
The struggle against crapitalism didn't start in this, or the last century.
It began, in the modern era, in 1840 with the publication of this book:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-government
Do the banks 'own and control' or does the true belief in banking own and control?
The banksters couldn't do a damn thing if the workers solidified.
The banksters don't wield clubs, and club wielding thugs don't load trucks or manufacture goods.
Those thugs will come to our side when their food runs out on that side.
When dollars can't buy crap, crap stops getting handed out.