It's Not the Economy, Stupid

IT'S NOT THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Anyone who has worked in a restaurant knows that the amount of food scraped into the garbage in one night could feed the homeless for a week. The question is not how to increase production, but how to share the wealth equitably. Daily we are bombarded with images from around the world that demonstrate the vast excesses of some, intertwined with the desperate poverty of others. The present system is rooted in secrecy and greed, not in “economy”, and is perpetuated by ordinary people operating on blind faith in the international religion that we call money.

Money itself is not evil – it is a way of specializing in the workplace, organizing the efforts of individuals to make life easier for everyone, but has become a tool of deception and a weapon of dominion in a giant board game that has fostered conflict and misery throughout history. Today's currencies are simply empty promises of corrupt institutions, but the vast majority of mankind still “believes” they have value. The only real value is the confidence that we place in them.

The only way to restore the usefulness of money is to set a standard of decency in it's creation and distribution, like cleaning a swimming pool after millions of gross children have polluted it. A line needs to be drawn. Working to meet our own needs, (and the needs of our families) is a healthy, natural and mature instinct, but enterprises like drugs, weapons, extortion, slavery, religion, fraud etc. cannot be rewarded with the same currency that is used for benign endeavors. Only after the financial system is cleansed from the present perversion, and there is some truth to the old adage that “crime doesn't pay”, can we talk about “economy”. Unfortunately, that would mean that a huge percentage of current “jobs” would disappear!