Pay:
To make due return to for services rendered or property delivered
To suffer the consequences of an act
To requite according to what is deserved
To give in return for goods or service
At the very root of the word lies the definition:
To suffer the consequences of an act
Every time I pay for something even as simple as an apple, I am suffering the consequences of wanting to eat it and picking it up with the intention to eat it within the money system.
That may sound dramatic, but I am suffering (loss of money) because I have to pay (money) for the consequences (less money to spend) of an act (choosing to eat an apple).
Now why should I have to suffer just to eat? I shouldn’t, is the rational answer.
But we are not dealing with something rational. Money and the concept of paying are not rational concepts, and they were not formulated by rational beings.
Money isn’t the root of the issue, here. Paying is. Paying punishes the payer. And who’s paying more, by and large? Men, or women? Let’s see:
- Elderly women are far more likely to be poor than elderly men.Thirteen percent of women over 75 years old are poor compared to 6 percent of men.
- Poverty rates for males and females are the same throughout childhood, but increase for women during their childbearing years and again in old age. The poverty gap between women and men widens significantly between ages 18 and 24—20.6 percent of women are poor at that age, compared to 14.0 percent of men. The gap narrows, but never closes, throughout adult life, and it more than doubles during the elderly years.
- Women are poorer than men in all racial and ethnic groups. Recent data shows that 26.5 percent of African American women are poor compared to 22.3 percent of African American men; 23.6 percent of Hispanic women are poor compared to 19.6 percent of Hispanic men; 10.7 percent of Asian women are poor compared to 9.7 percent of Asian men; and 11.6 percent of white women are poor compared to 9.4 percent of white men.
It would seem that women are paying a lot more than men. Why? The simple answer is because women are poorer than men on average. Poor people suffer (loss of money) the consequences (less money to spend) for their actions (eating (food bill), sleeping (rent bill)).
So do rich people, right? A rich man who buys a Ferrari suffers (loss of money) the consequences (less money to spend) of his actions (acquiring a new car).
But the difference between a man who can afford a Ferrari and a single mother on welfare is that the rich man has a large amount of money and the single mother has a small amount of money.
It’s like sitting on a pillow full of money atop a bed of nails:
The rich man has a thick, fat pillow, which means he can’t feel any nails on his ass. If he decides to take some money from that pillow to pay for something, there is still plenty of money in the pillow to keep the nails from poking his ass.
The single mother has a thin pillow, which means she can already feel some nails on her ass. If she decides to take some money from that pillow to pay for something, there is even less money in the pillow to keep the nails from poking her ass.
Which makes the real issue not the amount of money one has, but the existence of a bed of nails in the first place. The bed of nails exists, but why?
Because it has been manufactured. Beds of nails don’t spring out of the ground. Who has it been manufactured by?
By the very beings that manufactured the concept of money.
It’s a circular system: They’ve built a bed of nails, inserted it underneath us all, and have offered us a solution to keeping our asses from being poked by the nails.
Who’re they? The creators of money. Who are the creators of money? It is impossible to say, although it is very clear that those who benefit most from the creation of money are almost always male. Working backwards from that observation, would it be wrong to assume that the creators/sustainers of money and the money system are male?
I don’t think it would. This assumption would certainly explain a lot of things.
Things like beings who are fully aware of their miserable, unoriginal, boring, half-dead state in relation to their fully alive (needisaymore?) female counterparts devising methods to torture females in a vain attempt to assuage their constant feelings of resentment and anger.
Next up: why what we create is a reflection of what we like, and why beds of nails actually turn men on! {insert *bowchikawowow* ™ here}