This is my third article on the subject of communities and why they are as critical as a cell in the human body.
I wanna make this article short, too. One reason is that money sounds so boring, and trite that I would rather try to inspire people to think about money for themselves, but I would like to offer some ideas and thoughts here.
Point #1: money, as it is thought of today has been made abstract ,and is most often misunderstood. Think about it: It costs roughly 6 cents to make/print a dollar, but I can buy 100 cents with that piece of paper that says 1 dollar on it! Today's money is inflatable; meaning, it is easy to print a bunch of paper and assign 1,5,10,20,100 digital value to them. All I have to do is write a number on a piece of paper? How is this good? I can put a value on the entire world, print some paper, put some digits on that paper and distribute that paper to people to buy things in the world that real people produce? By now you are saying, "now wait a minute", and you would be right; this aspect of assigning a digit to a printed piece of paper is the wrong way to go about creating money.
Point # 2: Money should be linked to goods and services produced. If no goods or services are produced, should we have infinite money printed? Money should be created by communities themselves and not the central banks. The reason is central banks are too far away and become detached from the real world producers. Central banks do not know how to allocate resources best.
The idea is that YOU, yes you, the reader are the producer of money and NOT the government. Yet, the governments tax your skills and productive capacities without themselves producing a single thing!
What does that sound like to you? A scam? The scam has been made romantic by various methods so that we now believe we are free and money as it exists today is normal, but it is not normal once you make it a habit to think through this money maze.
I hope you make it a serious effort, as I have, to think about what money is and what it is not; and, realize that communities are the cells that make the world. It is not the making of paper dollars with digits on them that creates wealth and prosperity it is making stuff!
I'd like for the readers to begin their journey into the world of making things and producing goods and services. Here is a link to Charles' Hugh Smith site: https://www.oftwominds.com/CLIME-project.html.
The starting point is right in your backyard; your community of friends and makers of things. It is not just limited to produce as shown in the pic below: it could be anything as long as the right skills are in your community or your community trades with another nearby or far off region.
