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A neighbor of Mine asked me this morning: What are you doing tonight?

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[Laughter] - [Somebody from the audience asks: did you invited him?]

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I did! I said, "Why don't you come along?"

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"I'm getting canonized by the Church of No-Shopping, Life After Shopping."

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"What are you doing?"

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[Laughter]

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And he said: "I actually have to go to buy a car tonight."

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(Audience: Ohhhhh)

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[Piano Suspense]

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And he said: "WTF do you mean... No Shopping?"

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"I need a car cause' I got to get to work, I got to make money to feed my Family."

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I said: "I understand, it looks like that. That you need a car because you need to get to work."

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Now, why do you need a car to get to work? Because GM (General Motors)

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lobbied our government in the 1940s to change the landscape of America,

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so Americans, would need to buy cars in order to get to work.

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(Applause coming from Audience)

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Why, do you need to get to work?

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Because I have "a job," and why do we have jobs working for companies?

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Because even further back in the 1600 the kings made a deal

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with people they called the "Charter Corporations" to charter monopolies

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to make it ilegal for people to make business in a peer to peer fashion

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and instead to insist that people had to work for companies

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and no longer to be able to use peer to peer currencies, or do favors with one another

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BUt to have to borrow this stuff we are going to call "money," from a central currency

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This is not money, this is a kind of money

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Invented by people that meant to exploit you, to prevent you from doing work and exchanging value with other people

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and to force you instead. to work for them and have value extracted from you

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[applause]

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But, but...

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When you are born into a world, in which this is the preexisting condition

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It is very easy to mistake this monopoly game for reality

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And is very easy then to see the planet

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as a set of regions to be extracted and exploited

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To see one's fellow, men and women, as Marx

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With whom to be competing

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And see value and success, as a number in your bank statement, or on the Dow Jones, or on the GMP

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Rather than the amount of love and happiness you can create for your fellows.

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Amen

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[Applause]

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Preach it brother Douglas!

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Saint Douglas