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No Money Quotes When this [Climate & Ecological Emergency] is all over, the fact that economics was considered the most powerful science—or a science at all—will be a leading candidate for our collective tragic flaw. (Dr. Genevieve Guenther, 29 November 2020 tweet) Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly. (Hugh Macleod) Lies make money. (Seen on graffiti) [PWP's Bruce: If this is true, then it implies our current culture is based on lies, as money is worshipped and/or so central to survival. It goes something like this: Lies = Wealth = Earthly Power = Political Power = Brutal Culture of the Lie. How did we get into this mess? It just so happened that certain groups lied more effectively than others. Or subjugated/enslaved/brainwashed any culture where good flourished. Historical lies include: white supremacy, male supremacy, survival of the fittest (capitalism’s corruption of evolution), things are disconnected (the lie of materialism, the denial of ecology and God). All this implies that the new culture must not be based on lies or money. What about the Sun or Love?] In the future there will be no use for money, in its place will be love. Love is superior to gold, but it is too soon for mankind to think this way and, since money must be dealt with, you should learn how to acquire it without ever becoming fatally attracted to it… The point is what we do with it once we have it. (O.M. Aïvanhov, Aquarius - Herald of the Golden Age Part 1 [CW25], 1981, p.156) In a new world of intelligent machines doing much of the work, looming environmental limits and an increasing fraction of the population too old to work, wages and money may cease to make sense. We’ll need to totally rethink our systems of ownership and distribution. And why not? The technologies underpinning automation are an outcome of hundreds of years of human ingenuity (and blind luck). Why should the benefits be captured by a minority of super-rich owners? Universal basic services – including the public provisioning of housing, healthcare, education and transport among other things – may be needed to meet the basic needs of everyone. This could provide the basis for decent living in a world with less work, allowing people the time to undertake all the unpaid care work required to support children, the mentally ill and, increasingly, the elderly. We’re a long way from utopian visions of luxury for all, but providing decent living standards to all is already technologically possible. When the alternative is ecological catastrophe and social breakdown, aspiring to such a world seems not only desirable, but essential. (Joel Millward-Hopkins, The Conversation, posted 5 October 2020, accessed 7 October 2020) To create balance, replace money with something that makes sense
A world without money would also mean that many of the jobs we have today become unnecessary: banking, insurance and finance. All things that are meant to either manage money or try to create more money out of money itself, become unnecessary. Instead the jobs that will gain significance are the ones that hold social values, the ones we need to survive, and the ones that make life worth living. Work on these things will be voluntary. People will be motivated by a sense of responsibility towards themselves and society. We'd be able to structure our work in a much more democratic way... So, a world without money doesn't mean that work will stop being done. It just means that why and how we do work will change. The social reasons of why work exists in the first place will naturally rise to the top. (Jade Saab, YouTube, 7m31s, posted 19 March 2018, accessed 27 August 2021) A world without money also wouldn’t mean anarchy. Our idea of anarchy, that everything will just fall apart without money is actually based on the core theory of economics, that we all function to maximize self-interest and therefore we need something like money to keep a lid on things, to keep us controlled and civil. But is this a fair assessment of human nature? (Jade Saab, posted 24 March 2018, accessed 27 August 2021) "Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money." (Cree Indian prophecy) So, why not treasure Nature instead?... The land is our real mother. The land is our bank. The land is something that we can keep safe, for generation after generation. When we talk of education, we need to pass our knowledge of the land and how to grow food down to our children. (Ladakhi women, Schooling the World documentary, 48m59s, posted 24 September 2014, accessed 20 October 2017) Happiness comes from relationships, nature, moving, creating, learning, teaching, sharing and growing. Not money per se. (Extinction Rebellion, 25 February 2022 tweet) It's time to remove the value of money and instantly make the rich poor. Money only holds importance in our minds, not in reality. Give money to a gorilla and watch him tear it up. It's nothing, and if we all agree on that, we can stop playing their games. (Jessica Wins, 15 January 2022 tweet) [This was tweeted in response to the superrich doing fuck all about the CEE and the inequity and injustice of capitalism and colonialism] |
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