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How economic growth has become anti-life
- contingencies 13y agoThis is clearly the most pressing issue of our era, as it lies behind so many other evils. To say nothing of the oppressed in 'developing' countries, growth and the state-enforced debt money systems have the majority of the educated world running around in blinkered slavery. Yes, that includes otherwise intelligent young people working fiendishly at startups, trying to get rich quick: from the article, the rich might be rich in monetary terms – but they too are poor in the wider context of what being human means. How can we chart a solution? People can use non-state currencies which aim toward collective value generation and liquidity at labour rather than systematized usury and incentives for hoarding capital. People can protest, develop alternatives to and utilize settlement systems that sidestep the state sanctioned monopoly of the conventional banking system. People can educate one another and their children to see value in resource preservation and environmental and social concern. States can begin to integrate these values in to governance, for instance using tax reduction as incentives. Just some ideas to get people thinking. Must read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_first_5000_Years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_first_5000_Years