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Get rid of the money system, then get rid of goverrments
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Levi Philos |
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Technically trained people comprehend this stuff quicker than any politician or economics trained person.
Vectors, Thermodynamics, Feedback?
The first encounter I had with the name Gesell was in a little pamphlet put out from a sort of commune out of Yellow Springs Ohio.
Featured writings of one of the two brothers Morgan and Arthur Dahlberg (or Dahlburg). The two brothers Morgan had formed that commune; Dahlberg was head engineer for the Tennessee Vally Authority (TVA).
The pamphlet was titled HOPE FOR THE FUTURE and was my first encounter with the concept of demurrage.
In its entirety, there are many ramifications; the simplest presentation is that most things that can be sold have carrying costs in one form or another. Entropy, warehousing and protection, insects, mold, rot, weather; what Gesell did primarily was to state that the monetary system should make a correlation to those factors.
Money is a symbol system for exchanging real things by proxy, and should reflect positively upon underlying natural law...
So look first and discover what the natural law is, and then design the replacement around those rules. Make provision for curing errors due to unexpected side effects.
Pumps and pulls - as Stefan DeMeulenaere put it. The political ramifications are unavoidable; but decentralizing the power structure is something I see as desirable.
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