A friendly exchange is a cooperative reallocation of resources. Thus money is as I said, a medium/technology for reallocation. You seem to think being a medium of exchange is mutually exclusive with being a means of allocating resources. On the contrary, media of exchange is a subset of technologies for allocating resources.

Despite how much you dislike it, it seems that the government can in fact decide what you do with your money. For example, hiring an assassin is illegal. I'm sure we'd all agree that banning conspiracy to murder is not a violation of your rights. Thus your "freedom" to spend your money according to your wishes is limited by the safety of other citizens, with as loose a definition for "safety" as we like.

Judging by the downvotes, we're just going to have to accept that institutionalized classism is the price we pay for being on HN.

I'd argue that HN is practically the only place in the whole world one can just walk in to and get serious, current, and actionable information on real-world social ladder-climbing.

Nobody here believes you should "know your place", but the more you learn about the world and business, the more you see just how hard this shit really is.

The downvotes aren't out of classism, but because your posts are not constructive to the discussion. They articulate a philosophical viewpoint and offer no real information of the sort I described earlier.

HN is not your soapbox.

Social ladder climbing is mostly just morally difficult.

Oh no, the peasants found a soapbox! Good thing there's downvotes, that'll shut them up.

Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN. Snark is deprecated as well.