Hooked, lined, sinkered, I ate merit pills Hard worked And dreamed USA dreams Pledged that my allegiance Would abstract to the store Paying consumption taxes Modifying not the core A road was paved And Eisenhauer said it best too: Plans are capital But planning is religious Credit shards fortified This lovely cola drink As I strove to quantify My critical interlink
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Roman Ryan 
This is a great piece to share during tax season. It’s thought provoking. So what are your thoughts on capitalism and us being chained to it?
I think we’re pretty stuck with capitalism for a while, in the same way we became stuck with language. Money and ownership won’t go away, but it’s my hope that money and ownership become more like libraries and wikipedia: people might play games to optimize their novels and poems in social structures like lit mags and MFA programs, but everyone can text/read/write; capitalism’s creations – hospitals, homes, food, medicine, transportation, will hopefully go the same direction.
That’s a really good future to hope for. I Just think there should be a cap to everything. I also think any more money than you make after that limit should be taken and refunded into the system to build roads, fund hospitals and nonprofit programs (so that does mean no taxes because everyone knows taxes don’t do what they actually claim to do). I also think that excess money should help the poor as well (who is poor for reasons outside of their control). It’s a developing idea/belief, but that is where I am with it so far 🙂
Winners winning bigger and bigger with no limit does not seem beneficial to society, a cap seems like it would help.
Indeed!