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domingo, 11 de fevereiro de 2024

One of the functions of money is to be used as a unit of account, but the main function of money is the power to coerce people into submission by exploiting socioeconomic conditions of manufactured scarcity. That is where the success of capitalism resides.

Money is also used as a storage of value, that is, as a way to accumulate wealth and, therefore, concentrate power.

Ultimately, money is how the upper classes control the lower classes, an instrument to divide society into privileged and underprivileged groups. Based on what? Meritocracy!

Who defines the social utility of any economic activity or profession?

Why do people believe they are entitled to privileges denied to others?

We need to analyze money through the lens of class power to understand what money is used for, which is the only way to understand what money is.

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How the Media Frames Political Issues

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]

http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html