{"id":206,"date":"2009-04-02T07:33:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T14:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:52","slug":"thursday-april-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/thursday-april-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>I was just reading about the 4,000 or so anarchists that are now protesting and rioting in <span id=\"lw_1238682675_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">London<\/span>. The article included a sign that read \u201cAbolish Money\u201d.\u00a0 Now I am sure that some of these unhappy individuals are from <span id=\"lw_1238682675_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">England<\/span> 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?\u00a0 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 <span id=\"lw_1238682675_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\">economic system<\/span> like that?<\/p>\n<p>Signed,<\/p>\n<p>I still have a drawer full of Lire<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nDear Drawer Full of Lire,<br \/>\nWait, what is the current street value of an H.J.?\u00a0 Five bucks?\u00a0 Fifteen if it&#8217;s a well groomed hand?\u00a0 I can&#8217;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&#8217;t really know how many of them are processed a day.\u00a0 Maybe H.J.s will be the pennies of the new economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Protesting seems cool because you can always talk to younger people with an air of authority.\u00a0 And I think it gives your average drug user a little more legitimacy.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, let&#8217;s see&#8230;abolish money.\u00a0 Yea, now that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about.\u00a0 Because I&#8217;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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I think you could probably get to England on a raft, or maybe even by swimming.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t someone do that? Anyway, the thing about Europe is that there aren&#8217;t tons of jobs there, so protesting is an important past time.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like eating cheese and drinking wine and having sex with Americas who are studying abroad.\u00a0 You really can&#8217;t take these people too seriously. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poor Lucky Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cAbolish Money\u201d.\u00a0 Now I am sure that some of these unhappy individuals are from England and may have walked to the protest, but how do you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/thursday-april-2nd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday, April 2nd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3826,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}