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Haha, let's delve into the humanities core: what is evil?

Money is the root of all evil! Specifically, money is means where whatever evil was done to achieve some amassing of "wealth", once converted successfully into "money" it is washed of its sins and passed onward to successive generations with no exposure. This is a core of money combined with the limited liability corporation, the other major sociopath-washing mechanism of capitalism.

Examples:

- southern chattel slavery

- oil/gas earnings with global warming

- cigarette industry

- prohibition-era criminal organizations, or really any outright organized criminals that manage to launder their money successfully

- Chinese and Russian oligarchs exfiltrating their fortunes to the West

The core component to the concept of money at the level of the elite is ethical and moral laundering.




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