Consider: Money #01
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For real, this sign ₪ looks like hands rubbing together, and that's hilarious!
You know Youtubers? They commonly start up with interesting, raw, coarse material. They just have very basic equipment that's readily available to any person in the world where equipment can be purchased at stores. Initial content is usually basically edited and assembled. Anyone can do that!
Then they get popular. Then they get approached by advertisers. There's a saying, "if the product was good, they wouldn't need to advertise it so much", or "good products sell themselves through word of mouth". Indeed, when was the last time you heard about toupees and Moonbumps? Plastic surgeons also get business through word of mouth. The 33 Orange club is a very tightly connected club. They just throw their handsigns, wear obnoxious orange, be baffos, and suddenly everyone knows their names. Real people don't have this.
When a Youtuber gets popular, and if you were there when they started up, you can witness the sharp decline that happens, when money becomes a factor beyond "bought some equipment and paid the bills". You don't need anything beyond the bare, minimum basics. Some things are even dirt cheap and free, if you know where to look!
When a Youtuber gets signed on with promoting some garbage "service" (no need to get into those here, but I might make a page...), their quality takes a nosedive. They run out of actual good content, and start desperately scraping together, any and all trash materials, to make more videos with. Then the egotism comes in. Then they do "face reveals" and dox themselves. Instead of the content, which should be first and foremost, they become raging narcissists, and go on "epic battles" against random schizos who pick fights out of boredom. You can probably think of several Youtubers who declined this way.
They start to manufacture "dramas" to keep the attention of idiot 13yo who don't yet understand just how much the money obsession drives people. Then they start going after ARGs because those vapid things, have uh, loose ends and stuff, to talk very, very slowly over. They stretch out the length of their videos, so they can fit more ads in. They'll even show themselves on camera, in front of a huge microphone, rambling on incoherently about "bloopers", and pathetically trying to force a "laugh" out of any 6yo watching on their parent's device.
When the story is over, it's time to close the book. Look at what happens to things that are forced to march onwards, long after their spirit has passed on. The Simpsons is the prime example of a "zombie franchise", and Calvin & Hobbes is remembered very fondly, because it didn't experience such a decline. Bill Watterson closed up the whole thing when he ran out of material, and just wanted to move on with his life. C&H ended on a high note, and that was the end of that. Others tried to imitate it, but it was the creation of one cartoonist, who ran out of steam for that project, and just ended it and moved on.
Money can buy you the basic things you'll need, and once you have them, you have them. Planned obsolescence is a thing that many major companies are infamous for, sometime I might make a page about the astonishing corporate WASTE that plagues the world. Did you know that some Starbucks, after closing down, will DESTROY their equipment so no potential competitor can get it? However, sometimes people grab the equipment for $50 and refurbish them. Fortunate for those people, but oftentimes, things are destroyed out of sheer malice and spite. How about stores, where if a perfectly good product BOX is damaged, the contents get smashed in the trash compactor? A whole home cinema stereo setup, SMASHED because the BOX was dinged. No joke.
Planned obsolescence and artificial scarcity aside, computers are kinda funny. Apple is infamous for their bullshit with "can't change the iPod batteries", and releasing maleware through iTunes that makes an older model slower and worse, so consumers would be pressured to get the new model. Or how about the IBM scams, where the machines would, by default, be slow, and there was a "service" where an owner of an IBM machine would pay a "technician", who knew the super tip top secret ritual to do the things that made the machine run better? Built in BS. Fueled by a thirst for moneymoneymoney.
Computers can identify older equipment. IDK how they work at their base level, computers are literal, for-real, blackboxtech that everyone knows about and uses, but no one knows HOW they are made, it's all compartmentalized and all the sweatshop workers are told to put the things here and there, and then more teams put more parts together, and so on. They're magic, that's how it is. Magic isn't woowoo, but there is chaotic magic. However, most magic/unseen is very structured, predictable, and super prevalent in our daily lives. Fire is magic. Electricity is magic. Hormones are magic. Moving on.
New devices might be finnicky, have unchangeable "rechargable batteries", and obnoxious operating systems and irritating compatability problems with computers released around the same time. Obnoxious. But new computers, can always!! identify basic old devices. You got a camera from 2004? Plug that bad boy right in. Sometimes old cameras have dead pixels, but hey. The rest of them still work. Just do a bit of research before buying a product, to make sure it'll be compatable with your computer and OS. Really generic, cheap devices from companies producing discount products for 3rd World markets, often have very high compatability.
People complain that Youtubers they used to like, took a massive plummet in quality. Okay so... What stops those complainers from taking up the torch and doing things for themselves? You want something, do it yourself.
Money is the lifeblood of how the System works. And they will pretend that the world still has separate systems, and that some countries are "enemies", but all the world's a stage and everyone's a player. Save for like, 5% of the total population, and that's being generous. Does that sound strange? Keep your eyes and ears open, pay close attention. You'll start to notice some fishy things. Nothing's as it seems, everyone says that, but for real, pay attention. Ask questions. Take note of the things that don't add up. If it doesn't make sense, somebody is lying.
This page could stand some growth over a while. There's a lot to get into.
Money wasn't a thing at the very beginning... And that would raise questions about why Cain killed Abel if money didn't exist, but that's a discussion for some other time. But money doesn't have to be legal tender as we commonly know it, it can even be abstract things. Time is money, effort is money, affection, attention, favoritism, goods and services, those are money. Just not exactly legal tender.
Who's completely, utterly obsessed with money? That's an easy answer, but the real answer is way more than just that group. It's in every single group, save for Christ's Sheep. The diehard obsession with money is all over the world, in every single community, and because it's been that way since civilization was a thing, we've all been marinated in that culture of money worship.
We're forced to go to prison "school" and get utter BS and garbage drilled into our heads (war is fake, major historical figures didn't exist, seriously take a close look at those "war photos", they're doing masonic poses and playing dead. Or just laughing. Also they sure have big hips and short arms, huh. Theater of War. And don't even get me started on "outer space" and "dinosaurs" and "apes". Cuz those are a bit off topic.
And we're constantly shouted at from all angles, that we "need to make money", like it's vital to life, like water and breathable air. Wild animals don't have money. Plants don't have money. God takes time out of His day to take care of wild animals and plants.
Even people who make enough money to just get by and be comfortable with that, get yelled at by "family" (Hint: you don't choose your family, and existence isn't what we're told it is. It's much... stranger) that we're not making enough (even though we clearly are, we just have to be super frugal), and it never ends. People aren't content to be richer than you, they get mad at you for not caring about money.
USA currency is no longer backed by metal, but who can say for certain that it ever was? Things can be made up last week and said to be "several years old". History's a lie, they find "new fossils" and make up BS numbers about it, every week. This is people's jobs, BTW. They get paid spendable legal tender to make shit up. Things that do not benefit anyone, and instead only pollutes minds.