uses of the not for profit corporate designation is to provide governments the
capacity to know who is supporting what.
On taxation forms, itemized deductions for
charitable contributions, certain educational
or business expenses and the like provide
intrusion in the name of “savings”. Monetary and taxation authorities are relentless
in their insistence of representing all human
exchanges in their monetary equivalent
in part to extract tariffs but equally for the
intelligence of association that such exchanges represent.
Value for human exchanges of physical reality or services and experience are
assumed to be reducible to a monetary
quantification. This taxation of ephemeral
value - an innovation of the Napoleonic accounting schemes in the early 1800s (also
to pay for war) - encroaches into numerous
social experiences. Illusions of appreciation of monetary value of physical artifacts
(like real estate) are used to manipulate
national economies and provide socialized
subsidies for certain sectors (like banks
and insurers). Equally, illusions of depreciation encourage consumerism and extinction of natural resources - another subtle
socialized subsidy for industrial producers.
We’re not encouraged to discuss either of
these illusions nor the masters they serve
as doing so could destabilize entrenched
interests.
Money: Agency of Separation
We’re bombarded with statistics (counting
money) telling us of massive asymmetry in
monetary wealth between strata of society
and between nation states. “Rich” - meas-
ured by hoarded retention of profit vs.
“Poor” measured by the absence of hoarded reserves are ubiquitous distinctions that
are recklessly reinforced by incumbent and
anarchist alike. Ironically, the unconsidered
nature of the very notion of profit is the
manifestation of this agency of separation.
After all, what is profit? Profit can be an
excessive rent charged by one party over
the cumulative cost to provide a good or
service to another in which case a premium
is demanded by the purveyor of said good
or service. Alternatively it can serve as an
explicit metric of the failure to account for
the true cost of the production of a good
or service. And in both cases, incentives
for perverse separation are inextricably
bound. From Adam Smith to Karl Marx,
the neglect of the planet and its inhabitants are intrinsic to the odious addiction to
profit. If, for example, I am an industrialist
seeking a consumer base, my objective is
to pay for resources and compensate labor
at the marginal rate that allows the earth
and laborer to barely make it with just