Instead of working less hard to meet existing needs more easily, we have constantly created new needs to meet
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It would be a money that, like bread, becomes less valuable over time. It would be money, in other words, that decays—money that is subject to a negative interest rate, also known as a demurrage charge.1
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cooperation, abundance, and community?
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It is no accident that the first highly monetized society, ancient Greece, was also the birthplace of the modern concept of the individual.
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We have attached an exponentially growing money to a self and world that are neither exponential nor even linear, but cyclic.
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There are puppet-masters, but they are systems and ideologies, not people.
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a credit-based, interest-driven system that arises from the ancient, rising tide of separation; that generates competition, polarization, and greed; that compels endless exponential growth;
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The true culprit, the true puppet-master that manipulates our elites from behind the scenes, is the money system itself
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Unfortunately, as numerous revolutionaries have discovered when they topple the oligarchs, our hatred is misplaced.
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but if you’ll allow a moment’s indulgence in metaphysics, I think ultimately what is happening is that our deep ideologies and belief systems, and their unconscious shadows, generate a matrix of synchronicities that looks very much like a conspiracy. It is in fact a conspiracy with no conspirators.