Dear Poor Lucky Me,
I was just reading about the 4,000 or so anarchists that are now protesting and rioting in London. The article included a sign that read “Abolish Money”. Now I am sure that some of these unhappy individuals are from England and may have walked to the protest, but how do you suppose that an unhappy person from the US (or anywhere in the E.U for that matter) would be able to get to the U.K. without money? If we all started to barter, the street value of an H.J. would likely drop quite a bit, but what other good would come out of an economic system like that?
Signed,
I still have a drawer full of Lire
Dear Drawer Full of Lire,
Wait, what is the current street value of an H.J.? Five bucks? Fifteen if it’s a well groomed hand? I can’t imagine the price of a manual stimulation session would be the first thing to plummet in a barter system, but I guess I don’t really know how many of them are processed a day. Maybe H.J.s will be the pennies of the new economy.
Protesting seems cool because you can always talk to younger people with an air of authority. And I think it gives your average drug user a little more legitimacy.
So, let’s see…abolish money. Yea, now that’s what I’m talking about. Because I’m sure the abolishment of money would totally stop scumbags from being scumbags, idiots from being idiots, and would magically make greedy dicks administer to the elderly.
I think you could probably get to England on a raft, or maybe even by swimming. Didn’t someone do that? Anyway, the thing about Europe is that there aren’t tons of jobs there, so protesting is an important past time. It’s like eating cheese and drinking wine and having sex with Americas who are studying abroad. You really can’t take these people too seriously.
Sincerely,
Poor Lucky Me
