Technology is not driving itself. It doesn't want anything. Rather, there is a market expressing

itself through technology. An operating system beneath our various computer interfaces and platforms

that is often unrecognized by the developers themselves. This operating system is called capitalism,

and it drives the anti-human agenda in our society at least as much as any technology.

Commerce is not the problem. People in businesses can transact in ways that make everyone more

prosperous. If anything, capitalism as it's currently being executed is the enemy of commerce,

extracting value from marketplaces and delivering it to remote shareholders. The very purpose of

the capitalist operating system is to prevent widespread prosperity. What we now think of as capitalism

was born in the late middle ages in the midst of a period of organic economic growth. Soldiers had

just returned from the crusades, having opened up new trade routes and bringing back innovations from

foreign lands. One of them, from the Morish Bizarre, was the concept of quote-unquote market money.

Until this point, European markets operated mostly through barter, the direct exchange of goods.

Gold coins, like the Florian, were just too scarce and valuable to be spent on bread.

Anyone who had gold, and most peasants, did not, hoarded it. Market money let regular people

sell their goods to one another. It was often issued in the morning, like chips at the beginning of

a poker game, and then cashed out at the close of trading. Each unit of currency might represent

a loaf of bread or a head of lettuce, and would be used as credit by the seller of those items as

a way of priming the pump for the day's trade. So the baker could go out early and buy the things he

needed, using coupons good for a loaf of bread. Those coupons would slowly make their way back

to the baker, who would exchange them for loaves of bread. The moors also invented grain receipts.

A farmer could bring a hundred pounds of grain to the grain store and leave with the receipt.

It would be perforated into ten pound increments, so that the farmer could tear off a portion

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