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• A reply on Conversation: Since the Monetary system is man made, why do we allow debt, inflation, starvation etc... to persist? Can the system be transformed?

  Jan 7 2013: Found it, "Balanced Anarchy" James Burke. From "The Day the Universe Changed"

• A reply on Conversation: Since the Monetary system is man made, why do we allow debt, inflation, starvation etc... to persist? Can the system be transformed?

  Jan 7 2013: Hi Mark
  
  Your comments are very insightfull, they remind me of James Burke. In one series he describes Man as just redefining the Universe, through discovery, which is not discovery, just a different version of the way things are.
  
  Trying to remember which series that came from!!

• A reply on Conversation: Since the Monetary system is man made, why do we allow debt, inflation, starvation etc... to persist? Can the system be transformed?

  Jan 7 2013: Interesting, Would not Energy credits be even more slanted towards industrialization?
  
  I am a bit lost on Energy Credit being used as a Monetary system.
  
  If Society can not police itself with the current system, what would be the mechanism that would allow Society to police who obtains the most energy per unit?

• A comment on Conversation: Since the Monetary system is man made, why do we allow debt, inflation, starvation etc... to persist? Can the system be transformed?

  Jan 7 2013: Just heard of a very good example of what I am talking about... NASA received funding, 4.1 million, to search for dangerous asteroids.
  
  A possible Mass exticntion event will only get 4.1 million! A drop in the bucket.
  
  Not very good for society

• A reply on Conversation: Since the Monetary system is man made, why do we allow debt, inflation, starvation etc... to persist? Can the system be transformed?

  Jan 7 2013: I hope the "entire package" picks up steam. As for me, just a start, a nudge to get folks to think about the system and how it can be changed.

• A reply on Conversation: Since the Monetary system is man made, why do we allow debt, inflation, starvation etc... to persist? Can the system be transformed?

  Jan 7 2013: Money has been defined, be it gold or naval lint, any currency where value has been placed and recognized on a global scale.
  
  I agree, nature has its own books, we try to account by offering control. What still worries me is how that control is dealt out.

• A reply on Conversation: Since the Monetary system is man made, why do we allow debt, inflation, starvation etc... to persist? Can the system be transformed?

  Jan 6 2013: I remember reading one of your post concerning the economy, sorry I cannot recall the topic but I remember the Avatar, and your message.
  
  Basically saying the same thing that Money is an established social system, where power is the driving factor. I paraphrase.
  
  Made me think.

• A reply on Conversation: Since the Monetary system is man made, why do we allow debt, inflation, starvation etc... to persist? Can the system be transformed?

  Jan 6 2013: Hi Mark
  
  This is a start, although I think Ted conversations may be preaching to the choir, but it is a start.