2014-11-11

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2014-11-11

Title text: 2014-11-11

Votey

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Money is a generic unit of value, which does not consider the source from which it came. This is not an ideal system

How will you be paying for the cupcakes?

Money stolen from a homeless family

Sure fine but cash or credit?

So, we instituted a new policy.

Henceforth, there will be three kinds of money: Money got evilly money got goodly and money got in a morally neutral manner! Evil money can only be used to buy evil things good money to buy good things, and neutral money to buy everything else

The number of financial classes squared.

Middle class

Poor

Rich

Good

Folks

Folks

Philanthropists

Neutral

Folks

Bourgeois

Bourgeois

Petty

Evil

Bourgeois

Congress

Criminals

Class dynamics changed rapidly

I have billions from improperly-rated mortgage-backed securities, but all I can buy is snake venom and baby skulls.

I teach handicapped kindergarteners to

Read. All can buy is inspirational

Posters, and porcelain angels

The middle-neutral class burgeoned.

I'd like these cookies

How was that money

Acquired?

Data entry and not for an insurance claims adjuster

Both good and evil fell out of fashion

Hey! You wanna crusade against injustice?

No can do. My mortgage has no intrinsic moral character

The social consequences were drastic and wonderful

The national crime rate has fallen to zero, as has the door-to-door preaching rate

The svstem worked so well we decided to dissect it

If I give a random person flowers, is that purely good? Growing it increases coa emissions. And what about people who don't get any flowers. Are they harmed?

Horrific discovery was made.

We have discovered trace elements of ethics contaminating all human behavior

The old way was restored.

Henceforth, money will once again be exchangeable for anything as the head of state I would like to apologize to all of the evil people who may have been harmed

Oh well. At least we tried

Wait so I could pay a genator to give my company a loan, sell that company right before it went bankrupt. Then use that money to buy this apple pie?

It's a sick system isn't it?

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Votey Transcript

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So, the moral is

The what? High

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