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In reply to the discussion: Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years [View all]GiqueCee
(3,313 posts)... have no intrinsic value. There is no physical manifestation of digital currency; it depends on a shared delusion, just like the emperor's new clothes. and then there's the question: What happens if there is an Electro-Magnetic Pulse that makes it all go POOF?
Nothing good, we can be assured of that.
The USPS is the only business entity mentioned in the Constitution. The unbridled greed of corporatists has been the driving force behind efforts to destroy the Postal Service, such as the obscene requirement for the USPS to pay its retirement fund years in advance, which puts it in the hole every quarter. No other business entity or government agency is saddled with such an onerous demand.
Those proposing the total digitization of commerce don't give a happy rat's ass how forcing such a transition will affect those of limited means. "Little People" meaning you and me are given no choice in such matters, and the sales pitch is always a noxious stew of lies seasoned with veiled malicious threats if one fails to bend the knee to these sociopaths and their malign machinations.
Those of limited intellectual capacity lap up the bullshit Kool-Aid that corporatists spoon-feed them, and if it's to their own detriment, that's bad enough, but the rest of us get dragged into that mendacious sewer, too, and that's to the detriment of ALL of us, whether we like it or not.