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Can we change, can we live without money?
Ancient civilisations achieved a great deal, when focusing their efforts upon whichever problem needed to be solved. Energy, water, food etc.
Where previous civilisations failed to meet the needs of their people we now have the opportunity to learn from them and with greater numbers than has ever been on this planet before.
However we have been distracted for generations.
Our efforts are focussed on acquiring, chasing, and losing money, while real issues such as providing fresh drinking water, food, and energy to all humanity are ignored by the majority of us.
The problem with money has become so complex and yet its source energy is greed, and we know this to be destructive in all forms of relationship.
Why would we continue to face the world’s problems using the biggest source of distraction in humanity to get us there?
It is insanity to believe that we need “new world order” and world currency to solve these issues.
A thought:
Imagine everyone today who’s role in human civilisation is to protect and serve money (bankers, accountants, so on and so on) where to be suddenly un-employed.
What figure would that be?
How many working hours would there be available for other more productive tasks in society?
Imagine there is no money. What do we need? How much of it do we need?
Can we meet our needs as a civilisation with the quantities we require vs the amount of time and human energy we have?
Can we stand as ONE to achieve this?
There are more questions, there are more problems, change is coming one way or another, and time is running out.
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pat gilbert 50+
One of the truths of a happy life is to stay out of debt.
The definition of economics is the study of scarce resources that have alternative uses. Think about that definition...
Mats Kaarbö 10+
In Samoa food is there for the taking. Coconuts and fruit grow without cultivation, fish are available in the nearby sea, little or no clothing is needed, and it doesn't take long to put up a thatched-roof hut from materials that grow on all sides. There is no money or barter. Since there is abundance of everything, they only take what they need. There is no reason for stealing or owning anything.
"One of the truths of a happy life is to stay out of debt."
Taxes are debts...
"The definition of economics is the study of scarce resources that have alternative uses."
And how does the monetary system take the biosphere and its resources into account? It doesn't. It looks at resources as externalities in the economic equation, which is nuts. Instead of counting money, we should be counting the balance of the Earth’s resources on a scientific basis.
There is no evidence whatsoever to show that the monetary system seeks efficiency, balance or sustainability of natural resources, which we all are dependent on. Instead corporations depletes the resources in a rate that is soon at the point of no return, uses inefficient energy sources that pollutes the air and contaminates our drinking water, all this in order to keep the price up on the products they sell. And you call this an economy?
pat gilbert 50+
As the resources become scarcer the price goes up which economizes on those resources. Currently oil is going up in price so alternatives become viable because of he higher price. As people say you must be a green company or I will not buy from you the scarce resources must be processed in a alternative manner or the company will have no customers.
Mats Kaarbö 10+
Yes, because there is no need for exchanging anything when there is abundance. Everybody has access to what they need. What exactly don't you understand by this statement?
"As the resources become scarcer the price goes up which economizes on those resources. Currently oil is going up in price so alternatives become viable because of he higher price. As people say you must be a green company or I will not buy from you the scarce resources must be processed in a alternative manner or the company will have no customers."
Resources only becomes scarce because companies and corporations make them scarce deliberately in order to keep the price up. This is the main incentive for any corporation that wants to maintain a competitive edge. Efficient use of resources is the enemy of the profit game and is therefore an unsustainable and utterly stupid way of allocating resources.
pat gilbert 50+
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ws.html
The thing about making something scarce to keep the price up is that competition comes into the market with a lower price. In other words it doesn't work. Efficient use of resources is the name of the game in the free market.
You are going to come back with another of your delusions of which let me say in advance that I don't agree but do no have time for this.
Mats Kaarbö 10+
peter lindsay 30+
$45.5 million this year in aid
Mats Kaarbö 10+
pat gilbert 50+
Surely the Samoans retained enough coconut trees and fishing grounds in the cornucopia to get by?
John Smith 30+
You need something to use as a medium of exchange but it doesn't follow that you can repackage that medium of exchange into complex derivative products or that the people who have the most of it can sit back and let it multiply itself.