My name is Douglas Rushkoff I am humbled and honored to be amplified by your voices. You are not fighting against people, but against a machine. It was put in place over 500 years ago. By a wealthy elite - trying to repress a booming peer to peer economy. Those people are all dead, but their program lives on. They invented an operating system called central currency. People who used to trade directly, were now forced to borrow money from the king's bank. At interest. The elite also invented software for that operating system. It was called the chartered monopoly. Today we call it the corporation. It is a program designed to extract value. It has legal monopoly over its industries. We are legally prohibited from creating and exchanging value unless we do it through the corporation. We cannot work unless we have a "job." We outsource our work, we outsource our savings, we outsource our borrowing, we outsource our investing - all instead of sourcing one another. This 13th Century, printing-press era operating system is incompatible with a 21st Century economy. It is broken and dying. But it is still occupying our reality. Too many are mistaking this operating system - for the way things are. They see the Occupy Movement as the impediment. No. We are not asking for wealth to be redistributed. We are asking for the redistribution to STOP. The Long Extraction is Over. The peer to peer society is back. We are ready to create and exchange value as people. They say that the Occupy ...cc

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