HOW ABOUT CREATING A DIRECT-ACCESS ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND GET RID OF MONEY (MEDIUM-OF-EXCHANGE) BASED ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS?

Along with fear, guilt and sex, money is a favorite tool that humans use to control each other. Get rid of money? Those who control monetary systems: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve, etc. and large international businesses, use money to control governments. Governments use money to control other governments, their own citizens and smaller businesses. Businesses use money to control their employees. Customers sometimes use money to control businesses. Parents use money to control their children. Siblings and friends use money to control each other. Back and forth, and on and on, money is a very effective weapon that is used by almost everyone.

Is money necessary? To manage an economy, absolutely not. Contrary to popular belief, money is not necessary to live.

What is necessary to live? Food, shelter, health care, education, communication, transportation and recreation, these are necessary to live a quality life. Has nature ever charged money for sunlight, rain, food plants, metal ores, petroleum, air, electrical energy, cotton, trees, granite, sand, fire, etc? We have repeated the lie so often that it takes money to live, that we mostly don’t even question the idea, and when it is questioned, it is met with ridicule, amusement or dismissal, because it is so outrageous to conceive of living without money.

Economics is: production, distribution and use of goods and services. Nature, is an economy. Nature produces stuff. Nature distributes stuff. Nature uses stuff. Nature does this continuously. Money is A method of managing a local economy. It is a tool. It is used to determine who gets, how much access to, goods and services.

The fundamental principle of money is: I am “withholding from” you, what I have. Only if you have something that I value equally, or more, than something I have, will I exchange with you.

Nature, on the other hand, “shares with”, freely. Nature allows everyone to pick fruits and vegetables, absorb sunlight, have rain fall on them and breathe air. Nature allows airplanes built with US dollars to fly equally well over countries that use Yen, Marks and Yuan and over oceans with no money system at all. Has Nature ever charged for anything?

How can we manage an economy without money? It is possible to measure the energy, materials, labor and process time that it takes to produce all goods and services. We do most of this already, although we pay attention almost exclusively to the ever-changing money value of these. It is also possible to establish a principle that says: If you exist, you are entitled to an equal amount of all the energy that is available for all human endeavors. This is direct-access economic management, no money necessary, simple, fair, honest, loving.

Direct-access is possible. Money is incredibly stimulating though, both on the giving and receiving sides of the control dynamic.

William Daniels
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