Humans have allowed money and its acquisition to over-run and conquer
them. The rule of money is itself a dependency culture. Like all
dependency cultures, it's an ever-tightening trap, and a con. All you
need to do with money is give it velocity - keep it circulating through
as many hands as possible, as quickly as possible, going round and
round. All people really need to know is that there's more where it came
from. Which there always will be, as long as no one breaks the circle
by sitting on their profit instead of spending it.
Money is just a
cargo cult, one that has been wrongly and wilfully elevated to the
status of a pseudo-science. "Confidence" is what economists
call willingness to spend, even as they destroy the confidence of so
many people by leaving the market to inform them that they are not worth
much, and never will be. That's why "globalisation"
is stupid, and why off-shoring, hoarding and hiding your wealth is
immoral. It's why high-interest lending steals from everyone. It's why
high-risk investment is what it sounds like - reckless. It's why valuing
only work that generates profit misses humanity's point. It's why we're
all in this miserable, needless mess. It's why we are not getting out
of it, and won't for some time, if ever.
Deborah Orr
1 comment:
Reminds me of my dear friend J. She had very little of it but shared it with others saying "money is like blood, it must circulate".
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