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Get rid of the money system, then get rid of goverrments
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[quote:Levi Philos 590644:MV85ODA3ODlfMTc0NTQyMDdfMzJFQTFBMzU=] In my forays around the web, I came across posts by Mr. Blumenstock and subsequently contacted him personally. In some cases he was in discourse with John Turmel of Canada. Turmel in his turn furnished some of my ideas about money as a symbolic representation of real things and the idea that there should never be a shortage of money unless there was an actual shortage of goods. The circumstance that people should be out of work while there is work to be done and materials found to perform the work is one of the failings of the present system. We hear the refrain "The infrastructure is sorely in need of repair, but there is no money." Turmel pointed out that it doesn't matter if we used poker chips for money as long as they are mutually acceptable and actually collateralized by real product. Try thinking of money as permission slips. Do it this way: The bridge needs repair, and there are experienced bridge repair folks looking for work. We went to the bank for some permission slips, but they told us none were available. And all of this starts way back to the idea of a money system conceived in shortage. The first items of common barter were food and clothing and often times there were actual shortage. When metal coins were introduced, the physical shortage of gold and silver actually reflected upon the shortage of basic goods. It all seemed quite right. Then, in a juxtaposition in time both Darwin and Malthus came on the scene to write their theists. "The world is a jungle; people will always over breed supplies; let the scum starve to death! And it all seemed correct. Anyway, not to belabor the point, Hyman Blumenstock and John Turmel managed to show me the imaginary nature of value and the symbolic nature of money. It really is time to abandon the idea that money needs to be held in shortage and loaned at interest to have a working system. Money is an information system for allocating human effort. (Michael Linton) And in an information society, there should never be a shortage of money. Interest, and taxes to pay interest are the reasons for both shortage and the accrual of ownership of all real capitol (industry and land) in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The efforts of governmental agencies and socialists to alleviate the poverty and suffering found all over are misdirected. The root cause of very many social problems is a malfunctioning money system and the cure is in total junking the present system along with a debt repudiation. A completely new system is needed. [/quote]
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2 things the human race will have to combine and achieve before we evolve.
if we don't, it will be like a stagnant parasite within us all.
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