1/10/2014
It is taken for granted that everything has a monetary value, almost nothing is valued above money or for that matter in any other way.
Because it’s taken for granted it is very difficult to persuade people of the unfairness of money let alone the possibility of another system.
Money is fair
The Bible
Isiah 55:1-5
Jesus and money – money changers and face on coin incidents
Is money a fair way of running the economy when millions are denied food and water, health care, education and work?
Entrepreneur / Entrepreneurialism
Enterprise:
• A project or undertaking, especially a bold or complex one
• A business or company
It is regarded as fair that millions are poor because they are not entrepreneurial; but Entrepreneurialism is denied those who are poor by the enclosures of those with a head start.
Articles about the people staying at the level they are born in to
Oxfam Report
In 2014, the richest 1% of people in the world owned 48% of global wealth, leaving just 52% to be shared between the other 99% of adults on the planet.1 Almost all of that 52% is owned by those included in the richest 20%, leaving just 5.5% for the remaining 80% of people in the world. If this trend continues of an increasing wealth share to the richest, the top 1% will have more wealth than the remaining 99% of people in just two years, as shown on Figure 2, with the wealth share of the top 1% exceeding 50% by 2016.
Imagine 100 apples shared between 100 children, 1 has 48 apples 19 have 46 and a half apples and 80 have 5 and a half apples. This is fair?
In California there is a draught and water use is being restricted to everyone/thing except the Fracking industry, therefor in money water has less value that oil or life, human or other.
In money unemployment has value
In money withholding medical treatment has value
In money withholding education from the young has value
In money mass murder has value
In money starvation has value
Resources are finite, therefore growth can only occur through the organization of reduction.
How is it, that one human being’s time is worth nothing (or is a cost) and others are worth a fortune – answer, it isn’t.
It seems to me that this demonstrates that money is a false measure of value.
When people say the system is the problem, they point to capitalism; in my opinion capitalism is only a sub-system. The system that is the problem is money.
The gravity analogy
The carrot and the stick
Like the Israelites walked away from their slavery in Egypt, the population of planet Earth must figuratively walk away from their slavery to money.
Star Trek – The economics of the future are somewhat different . . .
See Banking: The Worlds Greatest Scam
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