Tom Simmons - Money Is Our God

[@nivlac024]

Banker or a fig tree ... Love it

[@friendofsyd]

Wells Fargo is that bank .. .the check for $5 joke is priceless. Can't believe I didn't think of that the last time I bitched to the teller......

[@TooFarTV]

It's never too late to go back... #Costanza #JerkStore

[@redrum41987]

My new favorite comic

[@TooFarTV]

You have chosen... wisely

[@amplitudemaximum6141]

"You know how evil you have to be to piss off Jesus?"

[@Jex134]

That was great. I'm usually not big on political comedy but that was really well done

[@TooFarTV]

Simmons is unlike any other act out there. Him and Stewart Huff are both on another level with their social commentary and ability to make political comedy palatable and hilarious.

[@FivOscars]

This man is fantastic

[@TooFarTV]

He's a real diamond in the rough.

[@kilorat]

Those of you tipping, know that this isn't Tom's channel.

[@TooFarTV]

True, although we never cashed the tips... going to try now (and give it all to Tom)

[@SueBoo2]

What IS Tom’s channel?

[@KrzysztofKorotko]

Wow. This is great!

[@TooFarTV]

Yup, Simmons is criminally underrated. Needs to be way more well known.

[@logicverse]

Ultimately someone told the truth. Money is the GOD.

[@TooFarTV]

Great comedy always tells the truth...

[@benstevinson764]

Money is EVIL!

[@mark1952able]

Happiness dwells not in riches and gold, happiness dwells within the soul

[@TooFarTV]

Mhmmmm - But that's Hippie Jesus talk, we don't like that kind round here, ya hear?

[@benstevinson764]

Money is the Real GOD of This World! 🗺️💸

[@kingofthepaupers]

Jct: Nice to see someone get it all right.

[@WellTransformedSoul]

love it

[@benstevinson764]

Money is the Real GOD! 💵💰If you are Rich 🤑 you do very well and if you are Poor you go to Hell 🔥

[@DrSanity7777777]

Money has always been two-faced, appearing both as a technology, and as an object of value. It began as a process of accounting, by relating the value of many different things to a standard one; to the value of a weight of silver, or a bushel of grain. It later developed into something more abstract, not related to a commodity, but to a universal scale of economic value. However, because people find it easier to think of objects than to think of processes, they focus on the object, the piece of silver, and ignore the process which defines the meaning of the idea. They mistakenly think of the value of money, rather than valuation by money. Confusion was compounded with the invention of coins in the 7th century BCE. Coins are made from precious metal for very good reasons. Gold and silver are rare and therefore valuable. They are also stable and dense. Their density allows them to be small and portable. They are also malleable, so can be stamped with images, making it easy to distinguish them. So, when the idea about the measuring unit of value, money, was turned into something actually valuable, into gold coins, they seemed to be the actual commodity, rather that an intermediate measuring device. Since then, this mistaken idea, that the token for money, the coin, is the actual wealth, has caused much confusion about the nature of real wealth, a confusion at the root of many crises, and a plague on our philosophers, economists, and politicians. Before coinage there had been systems of accounting for wealth and for debt, there were so many cows, or so many bushels of barley, and one person owned so much, or was in debt for so much to another. It was easy to understand what constituted wealth: it was the strength, skill and knowledge of that society, the land and goods which it controlled. But coins, once they were invented, were no longer just measuring devices, tokens. They assumed the Janus face of wealth itself. The intrinsic value of the precious metal in them focused everyone’s attention on the tokens. The tokens became the items for which to strive, and blinded us to the real meaning of money, which, in the end, measures and transmits the power that we have over our environment and each other. Money tokens, even electronic ones, are seen as actual wealth, even when precious metals no longer figure in our money systems. They continue goading us with ever more desire in the commercial dreamworld that we now inhabit. A dreamworld in which debt is misinterpreted as actual wealth, and qualities which do not fit into the realm of property, qualities like care, air purity, or health, are measured, inappropriately, by money, in a vain attempt to make them interchangeable with property. For what is money in our time, but an illusory idea of universal value, a process that aims to reduce all items, acts and qualities down to a single mode of valuation. So long as only a small minority understand all this, the rest of us are open to both moral and financial exploitation. We should not think of what money is, but of what money does. For the crucial fact about its nature is that money is a technology, or procedure, devised to manage trust, trust that a creditor will be repaid. One could say it is the operating system on which we run our economies. For to trust is to have a belief in someone, to credit him, and if they are obliged to you, they are in your debt (hence, credit and debt) - a fact clearly asserted by the Knights of Malta, when in 1565 they stamped this motto on their coins: Non Aes, sed Fides - Not the Metal, but Trust. “The problem is that money is not really a thing at all but a social technology: a set of ideas and practices which organize what we produce and consume, and the way we live together. When it comes to money itself - rather than the tokens that represent it, the account books where people record it, or the buildings such as banks in which people administer it - there is nothing physical to look at…But currency is not itself money…Coins and currency, in other words, are useful tokens to record the underlying system of credit accounts and to implement the underlying process of clearing [these accounts].” - Felix Martin "Some observers mistakenly consider the Federal Reserve to be a private entity because the Reserve Banks are organized similarly to private corporations. For instance, each of the 12 Reserve Banks operates within its own particular geographic area, or District, of the United States, and each is separately incorporated and has its own board of directors. Commercial banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System hold stock in their District's Reserve Bank. However, owning Reserve Bank stock is quite different from owning stock in a private company. The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System. In fact, the Reserve Banks are required by law to transfer net earnings to the U.S. Treasury, after providing for all necessary expenses of the Reserve Banks, legally required dividend payments, and maintaining a limited balance in a surplus fund." - Federal Reserve

[@Loganreeder26]

Ok, imagine this. I take a piece of paper and cut it into 100 pieces and give you those 100 pieces as a loan. There are now 100 pieces of that paper in the entire universe and it comes from only me. Now, I make you pay back that loan at 5 percent annual interest. So at the end of the year, you owe me 105 pieces of paper. Ok, where did you get those 5 extra pieces of paper? Well, you can take out another loan to pay that 105 back. But wait... there's 5 percent interest on that loan too, where are you gonna get that extra paper from? Oh well just take out another loan! Do you see the problem?

[@sixtoewolf2]

Jesus flipped the table over and chase them out with whips

[@kingofthepaupers]

Jct: Tom Simmons gets an A+ from the Professor of Banking Systems Engineering!! Imagine making comedy by pointing out our debt slavery!!! Hope he enjoys the math backing up what he's learned so far at johnturmel.com/bankmath

[@PixelPhobiac]

Bitcoin :-)

[@TooFarTV]

Send Tom some....

[@tcperozi8831]

Wow your the man absolutely BITCOIN AND ETHEREUM

[@tcperozi8831]

B I T C O I N is the answer and ETHEREUM 😎😎😎

[@rolovolo]

Spare your family. Buy Gold, silver and bitcoin.

[@auneakeffect]

george carlin wannabe

[@TooFarTV]

What's wrong with wanting to be one of, if not the, greatest comedians of all time? Substance-less naysaying is boring as fuck. Be less shitty and have a point.