"Follow The Money".
I can think of no other term upon which indictments of some entity or individual are built upon. It is spoken from the perspective of the researcher seeking to show "daylight" upon incestuous behavior. A spider's web of interlinked interests between operatives. The money is the lubricant which greases the skids and allows some scheme to operate. This quote appears to have come from the movie "All Of The President's Men", a book surrounding the Watergate Break-in that eventually sunk President Richard M. Nixon.
Another term that has entered into our lexicon is "Show Me The Money".
This term is spoken from the perspective of the individual who stands to gain money from an individual who seeks to do an exchange. "If you really value what I have..........prove it with the cash that you tender my way".
In my effort to broaden our language where there is a sparsity of words to adequately model real world circumstances that need to be brought to light - I would like to introduce a new term to our lexicon:
"Observe Where The Drought Of Money Is"
This phrase is also spoken from the outside observer as well. Unlike "Follow The Money" which seeks to indict individuals and entities - "Observe Where The Drought Of Money Is" is an indictment of the SYSTEM that exists in a certain domain OF FREE PEOPLE.
These free people being "equal people" are a wellspring of potential wealth. Too often the aggregate forces that bear down upon them suppress their individual ability to operate in means that allow them to express their productivity. In aggregate, the natural synergy that is extracted as two or more of these same people collaborate (CO-LABOR) is squandered.
Please be clear - in my calculus - there is no such thing as "Creating Poverty". You can't "create cold". Instead just as one "removes heat" to create an air conditioned containerized space - one can only keep the human being idle and/or asunder from his organized system for producing the energy known as productivity. "Wealth" is merely a system of "generally accepted accounting principles" upon how this "wealth" will be measured. It affords comparative studies across regions.
I make reference to the necessary conjunction of "free people" because indeed the slave is productive. He is not the recipient of his productive ends. Those who the system allowed to "own him" received the proceeds.
Today's Observation
In today's world some people are inclined to make comparative note of the WEALTH OUTCOMES and thus center their advocacy upon the discrimination or violations of "social justice" that these imbalances provide evidence of. As a result some of these same activists are pleased if the system merely takes abundant resources out of the system where it was produced and shift it to where there was scarcity.
The over all goal of this redistribution is the recognition that - inside of this containerized space - there exists a MINIMUM standard of living below which none of the protected members shall be allowed to fall.
The rather ironic point that is rarely discussed by those who are active in this way is that despite the fact that these masses of people having achieved their FREEDOM from serfdom, slavery, 'wage slavery', and lack of collective bargaining rights.........in the places where the entity upon which most of their scorn is heaped has vacated ......... the POTENTIAL energy and productivity from the "free and equal" human being is not being tapped.
"Observe Where The Drought Of Money Is" attempts to understand this conundrum. The question of "is the absolute freedom" that is advocated for really a benefit IF it is not tied to the realities of the real world?
Clearly in the world of "Yin and Yang" of labor and economics - Slavery is the "Ying" because the laborer is "owned" and thus has no right or freedoms. As I see it those who are "SYSTEMATICALLY Unemployed" are the "Yang". They are NOT WANTED. There is no "exploiter" of their labor to be found and thus their potential withers on the vine, waiting to be picked.
The irony, as I see it, is that those who take the most active stand against the "CORPORATE - consumers of labor" have failed to erect a system by which those who are "SELLERS of labor" can market their goods in the market by which they receive an inflow of needed resources.
In the most perverse sense - some seek to retain their moral high ground with the knowledge that they have purged every risk and point of exploitation from the backs of the labor force. In addition they have maximized the entire pay package that is received from this sale item. The new language of "Observe Where The Drought Of Money Is" demands that we inspect this irony and apply corrective action with the goal of removing the abstract theories that have, in fact, hurt those that were intended to be helped.
This same is true with regard to banks and other financial services firms. Surely the activist cannot be seeking to destroy the banks. One only need to look where the world's "UNBANKED" people reside to also see poverty. Yet despite the function that the banking system serves - they are targeted as the "evil" which as "CREATED POVERTY". Actually while listening to a student who was smitten with the words heard during a lecture with Dr Cornel West - she said that "CAPITALISM CREATES POVERTY". A concept that seems antithetical to me.
The only rational goal of the activist is to CONTROL, not destroy the banks and/or capitalism. They seek to leverage the power of government by which (in their view) the PEOPLE'S VOICE will be used in the name of "democratic socialism" to reprioritize the efforts of the banks, transitioning to a more socially redemptive outcome.
All of this sounds good. Unfortunately INTENTIONS are very different than OUTCOMES.
The unfortunate outcome is "Observe Where The Drought Of Money Is". In its purest form "money" is the measure of economic value. Whereas in the bartering system the glaring inefficiencies of having to bring to market a sufficient amount of one physical good in exchange for another people's physical goods that was desired by the seller proved unworkable. Currency allows value to be transfered to a standard unit where one's confidence in this paper (or electronic bank balance) allows them to accept it as they relinquish their own property (or service).
My frustration with certain people of a certain ideology when it comes to the societal valuation of EQUAL HUMAN BEINGS is that they too often look toward the greater society and demand that THEY prove that these "people" are "equal people" by applying monetary value toward their uplift.
It is clear that the twin brother of this notion is that within this containerized environment within which they live - the "Observe Where The Drought Of Money Is" framework illustrates that the people, as bound to whatever system of beliefs and culture they are fused to, are NOT producing organic value by which they can receive VALUE as they exchange the resources that they posses in the marketplace.
The "struggle" is ONLY a matter of promoting the theory of "WHO MADE US THIS WAY". The present struggle fails as we note the importance of having a state of INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY in this space. The main mission is the assignment of historical liability and to make the efforts at redistribution more permanently fused within our society.
What is the result of this theory when the corporation by which our labor is arranged is gone but the government which purports to express equality through resource allocation remains?
ANSWER - Expanding government as it too "Follows the Money Creation" where ever it may go.
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