Liberal/bourgeois democracy evolved as such because it’s effective at providing a buffer between the ruling and working classes, thus preserving class structure through inevitable boom/bust cycles.
There’s nothing truly democratic about it, since it functions to stifle and diffuse the will of working people, rather than manifest it.
If education is not liberatory, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor
Money being necessary is incidental to how our society is structured. There’s a lot of ways society can and has functioned without a universal equivalent, regardless of the state of abundance.
Similarly, interest not being evil is actually fairly new and unique to modern society. It’s pretty common historically and in different cultural contexts for interest-free debt to be a norm.
Which suggests these norms are likely specific to capitalism and its ideology rather than universal common sense.
Graeber’s Debt and The Dawn of Everything are anthropological works relevant to this topic that you might find interesting.
Add to that the conflation of health insurance with health care. The former is, at best, a means for the latter. Although the reality is it’s more an obstacle or corruption of it.
songs because they wire-up your other-hemisphere ( right-hemisphere for the 85% of people who have language in the left ) with the language, & that reinforces the language’s patterning
That’s something I’ve never thought about. Interesting idea, I’m gonna try adding that to my study routine.
The batteries should 100% be universal and interchangeable (to whatever degree is practical). The whole ecosystem nonsense can get fucked.
But as a form factor cordless is inherently superior for a lot of tools. I’m not gonna haul an extension cord onto a roof or whatnot.