APPARENTLY, NO ONE HAS NOTIFIED THE UNIVERSE THAT THERE IS AN ECONOMIC CRISIS ON EARTH

Sunshine is still beaming aboard the planet at the same rate as before the crisis began. Corn, rice, almonds, olives and peanuts are still growing and producing at the same rate as they did before the crisis. The same is happening with all food crops everywhere.

Airplanes still have the same load carrying capacity. Automobiles get the same fuel mileage pre and post crisis. The capacity of trees to produce lumber products has not changed. Butter and iron ore still melt at their same respective temperatures. The amount of electricity it takes to power 60 watt light bulbs has been constant.

However, despite this consistency, the Associated Press (10/5/2009) reported that the “…financial meltdown…wiped out 11% -- $6.6 trillion -- of household wealth in six months".

Webster defines economics as: ”…production, distribution and consumption (use) of goods and services”. The Universe produces stuff. The Universe distributes stuff. The Universe uses stuff. So, the Universe IS an economy, THE Economy.

However, the Universe works differently than the human “economy”. The Universe does all this producing, distributing and using according to specific rules that don’t change. The rules of the human “economy” change continuously.

Also, the Universe has no “medium of exchange”. It lets sunshine and rain fall on everyone who happens to be in the path of the sunbeams and water drops. Air is available to everyone, everywhere on the Earth surface. Crops grow for all humans who follow the rules for growing plants. In other words the Universe is a direct-access system, no money, no middle-men.

So, I suggest that we humans do one of two things:
1) Inform the Universe that there has been a reduction in wealth, and ask it to adjust outputs accordingly. It’s very exciting this way.
2) Get rid of “mediums of exchange”, since the Universe uses a direct-access system.

Either way, I think things would work better. Having two systems is very cumbersome.

William Daniels
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wdinpdx@yahoo.com
BillionsOfBillionaires.org
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10/6/2009

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
503-314-6902
wdinpdx@yahoo.com
BillionsofBillionaires.org

THE TRAGEDY OF MONETARY SYSTEMS
AND THE GOOD NEWS WE’RE MISSING

9/15/2008 9:23 A.M. PDT

The big news today is the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the buyout of Merrill Lynch. Thousands of people will lose their jobs. Markets around the world are in turmoil. The emotional toll is already great. The fear is that things could get worse. And yet the actual cause of the problem is unrecognized and the benefits are difficult to see. This is the greater tragedy.

Human inventors have been working for centuries to develop more and better labor saving products and services. They, we, have been very successful. Isn’t it ironic that we are not laboring less?

The foundational principle of monetary systems (We live in a condition of scarcity) blinds us to the benefits that become available due to our know-how. Know-how allows us to do-more-with-less. In practical terms, everyday reality, this means that it is good news whenever we can lay people off. We don’t need as much labor to produce the same or greater results. We won! We accomplished the result!

Uh-oh, we’ve got to “earn a living”. The good news, that we don’t need all those folks who are losing their jobs, actually looks like bad news. It certainly is bad news for them. They are going to be denied full access to the life support they enjoyed when they were “gainfully employed”. Heaven forbid, that these folks have the same, full access to life support. (Actually we’re doing a great job here, on our own, we don’t require ANY heavenly help.) The potential for these folks to develop even more efficient production and delivery systems to free up (lay off) even more people will be lost. We are still blinded and enslaved by monetary systems with their inaccurate premises.The image of the dog chasing it’s own tail is apt here.

However, all is not lost, Intelligence (love) will win out. Enough people all over the planet are intuitively (lovingly) recognizing, that all of us deserve to prosper. They are freely giving of their resources, time and know-how, so that all of us may benefit. I am optimistic that the incredibly good news that we are mostly unaware of, will get out, we will recognize it, we will simply drop these cumbersome, self defeating monetary systems.

William Daniels