I'm not entirely sure. Though it seems there might still be enough military might backing the the "no" that a practical answer is "it doesn't really matter on for many urbanites across many meaningful geopolitical concerns." But I'm concerned passive investment is simply wrong at base nature much like [[Usury]] itself is accused of being due to it being in fact passive. In that, a human should do their best. And isn't **do** and *active* rather than a *passive* act? > [!quote] We spiral towards heaven, or hell, there is no staying still.^[[[Axioms]]] There may be a corner argument, one exemplified in Capitalism at it's best, that money as congealed information comms-jelly of humanity's advanced systems and tools, can be used within part of a strategy that requires greater complexity of inputs and outputs than can be readily and efficiently utilized. Though to continue on our currently troubled path of mediating this with evident difficulty, we must at least begin to accept the struggle between the farmer and the thief within all of us. And find first a way of reconciling our position coherently within our own lives. Even if like so many of us even the nuance's of community have been supplanted by the vacant stare of an imitation. Writing this in May of 2024, whether I like it or not or can even understand it fully, there is still a runaway train of progress I call Monetary Hegemony. And even if I don't agree with it, I live in it, and so do all those I love, and most of humanity, if not possibly all of life and or consciousness within our universe. Be careful with those who identify with passivity. ###### Hedonism is a pastime, not an adventure.