G'day Swami,

Thank you for posting this article.

Makia Freeman says:

Imagine a world with less government and more freedom. Imagine a world with less tax and more dollars in your wallet. Imagine not being stressed about work and money.

Why not go all the way and IMAGINE a world WITHOUT Money! The "money" meme is the root cause of ALL humanity's problems on this planet. The idea that humans need "money" in order to live is ridiculous. We need to live in communities embued with the knowledge that we need to love our neighbour (everyone and everything) AS self FOR the love of God, if we wish to live in abundance and freedom. A society in which its members are focussed on service to others rather than self (as typified by any healthy family and extended family) is the answer to freedom and happiness. In such a society, there would be no need for "money" since abundance comes from sharing our skills, talents and labour; AND the physical bounty of this world. It doesn't come from use or acquisition of currency (let alone the fiat debt tokens we all pretend to be "money" in our current global society). The unreal "need" to acquire "money" creates separation, isolation and competition. None of those conditions is beneficial for individuals or the community as a whole. Parents and children don't invoice each other for goods and services rendered to other family members. WHY do we assume that we must invoice (charge for goods and services) everyone else?

The "money" economy is incredibly cumbersome and wasteful. The amount of work and resources needed in a "money" economy involving charging, billing, paying, banking, accountancy, insurance, advertising, litigation and policing in respect to "money" matters is all unnecessary and adds nothing to productivity, happiness or abundance. THINK of the increased free time available if such activities were dispensed with. The only reason that the average 'smuck' has for wanting to continue the "money" system is that it is hierarchical, enabling him or her to know their place in society and to feel superior to anyone seemingly beneath them in wealth and position. That mentality is the mentality of a slave. there is always someone higher in the hierarchy. The current "money" system is on the brink of collapse as instanced by the increasing tendency for financial authorities to legislate for "BAIL OUTS", BAIL INS",'To Big to Fail', 'Quantitative Easing', negative interest rates and "Helicopter money" and other similar bullshit. Switzerland is even contemplating legislation requiring the government to pay all citizens a regular stipend of $2600 per month.

Sooo, why not try stepping out of your "box" and IMAGINING that "money" is not essential to civilised life. Because after all it isn't. In fact it destroys true civilisation because it destroys spiritual autonomy.

The current money meme and concomitant Capitalist ideology are symbiotic. They presupposes the employment syndrome and "wage slavery" ie free range serfdom, which is just a euphemism for slavery. Those ideologies cannot be sustained much longer as the current global economic situation attests. Some obvious reasons for the collapse of these ideologies are discussed at: The Permanent Unemployment & Underemployment Economy. See: http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/The-Permanent-Unemployment-Underemployment-Economy.shtml

Arguably, The first step in achieving the needed paradigm switch will be to require that each community either creates for itself or receives from a genuinely uncorruptable, transparent and adequatly publicly audited central source, supplies of gold, silver and Jewely, or commodity backed, INTEREST FREE money, sufficient to enable the community to organise and pay for all the physical goods and services its members are able to produce with their own efforts (but no more) for their needs. Moreover, to prevent hoarding and impedance of the velocity of movement of money in the community, money should reduce in face value over time. Banking should become a utility function like the post office with banks having no commercial entrepreneurial functions but able to return money to the Treasury without loss, when its value reduces or expires.

This process will eliminate the parasitic misuse and hoarding of money and give everyone the ability to earn or obtain (if unable to work or contribute to community welfare for some appropriate reason), sufficient money to maintain a reasonable lifestyle without the stigma of unemployment and poverty. Such changes will also require elimination of Capitalist and materialist attitudes to ownership of land, planetary resources; and community resources like factories, robots and other technologies, required for production of abundance for everyone. It follows that human personhood rights for corporations must also be eliminated and anyone operating any "corporation" or business must be held responsible for whatever is done under their direction and control. In short, everyone would be required to be personally responsible for any harm resulting from what they or their agents do or fail to do.

Such a system would reduce most societal governance decisions and arrangements down to local and district levels based on Kritarchic principles. For some discussion of Kritarchy see: Life with no Government - http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/Life-with-no-Government_printer.shtml

Peace and Blessings,

Ron