Motorolin: I don't think you have a clear picture of this particular situation. This requirement that PayPal snoops on the accounts of UK PayPal users is European Parliament Anti-Money Laundering _legislation_ introduced in recent years under the guise of “anti-terrorism”. Because of the UK’s ties with Brussels, this is also now UK law by proxy. This has nothing to do with PayPal “account verification” (my account was verified years ago). PayPal have asked me to answer around 15 questions, related to how I use my account. Whether the funds are business related, where the money is transferred to after it hits my account, etc.
This is corporate-aided Government intrusion into my personal finances.
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Secondly, what on earth makes you think they "the government and tech-industry" would rather you didn't have the money you made from selling your property? Do you really think that's how the government and business owners want things to be, with the "average Joe" having no money? Where would the revenue which pays the wages of these organisations come from in this case? Do you know how capitalism works?
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moto
Oh, I'm pretty sure I know how "capitalism works". The only thing is, I know how it actually works... not how i'm TOLD it works.
yes, I really know that Governments would prefer it if their populations did NOT own a great deal. This may be a shock to your rose-tinted notion of government but they would indeed prefer you to not have a bank full of money or own homes which you could potentially pass on to your children.
That’s not just MY opinion, btw. This technique of keeping the majority of a nation’s populace “on the bread-line” (or as close to it as you can get away with) is well documented and is in fact a key principle in the art which our governments are masters in: social engineering. You cannot control and keep a population working 9-5 in jobs which they basically hate, if you allow too many of them to become complacent. Wealth, ownership of land and homes is key in breeding complacency and a sense of independant security in a population. Think about it. So yes, governments would prefer you to own very little (ideally nothing) - particularly the neo-Fascist type governments most of us have or will have very soon.
The world around you is changing rapidly Motoroli and incase you haven’t noticed, the new buzzword is “control” (climate control, population control, etc)...not freedom, democracy or even “capitalism”. I wish I had the energy and will to unravel things for you and explain the effects of recent historical events and current trends (particularly in technological "people control"), but I don’t . Just because you are told that you live in a capitalist democracy, doesn’t necessarily mean that you do.
Like Weirdami said: “The communists in China sure do. It's what's keeping communism alive.”
Controlling vast populations is largely a game of smoke and mirrors, i guess. and unfortunately this world is full of naive simple people like yourself who will never see how they are being manipulated. Pitty.
