Antibalas – Dirty Money

Interesting concept, isn’t it? Dirty money? It starts as an innocent dollar bill, or digital dollar. Use it in a crime and it becomes dirty. It gets laundered through various trickery or seized by law enforcement and suddenly it’s clean again and goes back into the system.

It made it past the gauntlet, the system gets to count it. Clean, dirty, clean. It’s the same dollar. If it was digital there weren’t even any germs involved.
Then on the other side, legitimate parts of the system don’t have to be moral, just legal.

A large corporation can do all kinds of harm, exploit people, destroy the place they live. But because it was legal, it’s clean money.

I wonder how it would feel to be a dollar with a conscience? Pretty confusing I imagine.

BTW, sometime read A Simple Plan, about a regular guy who thought he could handle a duffel bag full of dirty money. Gave me nightmares for days. Interesting now I think of it that his family had lost the farm to the bank. The Edge always goes to the house