Think of money as blood and the economy as the circulatory system.

Every organ in the body needs its share of blood-flow to serve the rest of the body.

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Do some organs deserve more blood than others?

Do some organs need more blood than others?

The brainless morality of deserving and not deserving need to be questioned into oblivion.

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Should all organs be forced to pump blood before they perform their specialized functions?

Standardization is vile. The ideal of well-roundedness is wasteful.

It takes a hundred times more effort to do what is against one’s nature, it is a hundred times more painful, and it is a hundredth as satisfying. AND it denies another person whose nature it is to serve in this way his opportunity to serve in his way.

Maybe some people have no particular preference of work. Perhaps their service is proving humankind some flexibility. However, they should not be allowed to demand that their own flexible excellence be imposed on all.

Seriously, can we stop trying to standardize our own virtues to put everyone else at a disadvantage? Let your virtue be your unique service, your currency — to be used in exchange of service with others.

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Many of us try to become self-sufficient so we can protect our individuality from the encroachment of others. We do not want to be enslaved to other people’s expectations  — which have everything to do with what they want and nothing to do with who we are. No?

I think this strategy is self-defeating:

What if self-sufficiency and individuation are fundamentally at odds? What if our choice is EITHER to individuate OR to be self-sufficient? Doesn’t it require the support of a lushly diverse social environment to really refine oneself as a unique individual?

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Life naturally evolves toward unified diversity.

The movement away from unified diversity to uniformity is the process of death.