> In exchange the United States act like the world's rent-a-cop, keeping shipping lanes open and getting rid of those who stand in the way of global commerce (s

> In exchange the United States act like the world's rent-a-cop, keeping shipping lanes open and getting rid of those who stand in the way of global commerce (sometimes violently) "sometimes violently" is a bit of an understatement. With the use of our current system we are literally making the world uninhabitable for human existence. We are systemically destroying mother earth's carrying capacity through ecological destruction, not to mention the misery caused by Magical Voluntarism and labour rights abuses the world over. I'm still finding ways to describe the issues with our economic system and it's apparatus, and the meaningful changes proposed by one of the projects I follow, in a way that acknowledges that in a way we are all victims to this current system (including neo-Imperialist USA), as today's money does not respect the law of requisite variety [1]. My above critique might sound anti-American, but America (together with other formal colonial powers in the Global North) is just the most powerful player in a game with outdated, harmful and inadequate economic models and governance systems. It's a painful era where we are using inadequate wealth acknowledgement systems, where the old Platform Capitalism paradigm is breaking down and showing it's flaws, and where the potentiality for Protocol Cooperativism is starting to emerge. Money is an information technology created by humans, operating a set of protocols. Tomorrow's world is governed by the practice of Commons-based peer production that is not subject to the contrived scarcity of today's value regime and system, where a neoliberal Intellectual Property system blocks innovation and monopolizes knowledge and information [2]. [1] http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53 http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/05/14/id-53, especially: "When I’m talking with free-market business people my elevator pitch [for community currencies supported by the MetaCurrency Project's Holochain pattern] is about allowing the power of competition and the marketplace to work on the currency system itself. [...] When I’m talking with engineers and information-theory folks my elevator pitch is about Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety and questions of the insufficient information carrying capacity of the monetary system to handle the control problems posed by the modern economy. When I’m talking with computer geeks my elevator pitch is about cc as a peer-to-peer distributed information system and about “pushing the intelligence to the edges” as in Reed’s Law." [2] https://c4ss.org/content/52947 https://c4ss.org/content/52947 and https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corruption-capitalism-guy-standing/ https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corru...