MONEY! This is a topic that evokes a wide variety of thoughts and emotions. This site will contain a lot of information and discussion about money as time goes by. There is a lot to know and understand about it. A survey shows that most people are not very informed about money. There are many books available about it ranging from history to the future, and despite the immediacy of and the profound influence of money in the lives of the people, the vast majority of the people have invested little time in its study. We know what it looks like, in its many forms, and we know what we can do with it, but this is not enough. Something that has become the overwhelming driving force of the world warrants more. The people would help themselves greatly by taking the time to study the literature available about money. The information found there is indispensable, but there are some things about money that seem to be missing from the literature, vital things.
A fundamental fact about money that demands understanding seems obvious, but is mostly overlooked is the fact that money is what we use to access the products of society, and regardless of the form, money is a means to limit your access to the products of society. If there were no limits to your access, there would be no reason to have money at all. If you think this sounds like everything would be free in such a case, you are simply making a mistake, an understandable one, but still a profound mistake.
“Free,” like “freedom,“is something that has little or no meaning when analyzed deeply. There is no such thing as “free,” nor, as has already been written about on this site, “freedom.” These are just words that represent no physical object and as mental abstracts have only relative meaning within certain contexts. Nothing is all that is free. No object of human production is truly free since it must be “paid for” with time and energy/effort. The air you breathe in comes at the cost of time and effort inhaling. When the universe is considered, devoid of life, everything in it is a product of time and energy, and, therefore, not free. This train of thought has no end. The products of society that we currently buy with some form of money are certainly never free. They all require time and effort to produce. So, even if there were no limit to your access to the products, nothing would be free. The amount of time and energy required to produce the products and to gain unlimited access would be the cost, but money would have no place. You invest time and effort; in return you get access to all the products of society. You will not be given anything. You will have to purchase what you get by contributing to society. What makes this so desirable is the fact that your pay for your effort is everything you want as long as you live. That is pretty good pay, don’t you think?
Yes, your money will disappear. You will have to give up money entirely. There will be no money and there will be no need for money. There will be no savings, no stock market or stock, no banks, no financial institutions, no artificial value, and there will be virtually no need for lawyers. All these things exist only because we use money to conduct the operations of our society. Of course, such a system serves some, and very well.
In terms of everything that is produced in the USA, including services, the financial industry (a name it does not deserve) comprises nearly half. Things that are being done in the management and manipulation of money have become a huge portion of the total work people do. It also pays very well. In fact, it appears that the financial jobs are among the top paying in the country.
Banking is something that we all see. But do you realize that every penny that goes into the banking system is a needless expense for society. It is like paying someone to follow you around holding your money and taking care of your payments, but much worse. It is simply an unnecessary expense, and it is an expense that has taken the top tier in the pay scale. Can you see that if everyone worked in the financial sector there would be nothing to eat? Can you see that the more we spend dealing with the onerous burden of money the poorer we become? It is imperative that society use its time and effort wisely. Our work must help us as much as it possibly can, and the cost of money is too high and totally unnecessary.
Nothing we need and want requires money. We have just become so inured to it that we don’t understand what is happening. If you want to build a house or a factory, you can’t build it out of money. You build it out of tangible building materials. Money doesn’t fertilize crops. It doesn’t fix your leaky pipes. When you need building materials, go get them. In a society that pays you unlimited access to the products of society as compensation for your work, that is all you have to do; just go get the stuff you need. It seems insane to first have to convince someone that you are worthy of the money required to get the stuff you need. How did this happen? Open minded study easily answers that question, if you can get to that condition. It is not easy, perhaps even unlikely. Try it after reading this article. You may find it more likely.
There is a lot to fathom about money and how it has transformed the very essence of life in society. Consider crime. Money is the motive nearly every time. Show a hungry animal food and them put it out of reach. You will see the animal behave in ways similar to the way people behave after they become aware of what is available in the world that they are unable to obtain. Food is a prime example even amongst humans. Just look at the starvation statistics. The food is out there, but many cannot gain access to it; they don’t have the money. Who can be confused now about the frequency of crime? It is a natural occurrence in a society that limits access to it products.
It has already been suggested that there is not enough for unlimited access for everyone. This is an old response and it has no substance. It comes from the psychology created by the system that has dominated life on Earth as long as history is available. This system cannot abide abundance. This system requires for its very existence shortage, scarcity, and deprivation. We have been subjected to this so long we have unconsciously accepted it as a natural condition of life. Nothing could be further from the truth. The waste that goes on in the world today is essential to this inhumane inane system.
Here is the next fundamental fact about money that beats you down every day all the time and still goes unnoticed. Somehow, at some point in time, it became accepted by the people that their time and effort does not deserve as much as that of another. You get paid more or less than someone else. The people have accepted the judgments that value their contributions to society at different levels. These value judgments and their enforcement have become such that the most essential work of society are the least valued. The people who work to build and maintain everything are granted the least access to the products of the society they build, while those who contribute things that we could easily do without are granted the most access; movie stars, high end athletes, and those who deal in money and laws, though the list is longer still. Only a very few, percentage wise, have unlimited access and, guess what, those few have virtually unlimited access to you as well.
If you and I get stranded on a deserted tropical island and I quickly gather all the coconuts and put them where you cannot get them, I can get you to do things for me that you might not otherwise be willing to do in exchange for coconuts. I would have access to you. The hungrier you become the greater my power over you becomes. My behavior in that case would certainly be subject to criticism, but such things are going on every day all over the world while the people idly accept it. You see it all around you, but you may be unaware of it.
Society is overflowing with products and services. Production is a staggering abundance. Even food has become a commodity that is bought and sold, rather than something personally grown, hunted, or gathered. It is a product of society and to get access to it money must be obtained. Again, the person with the money has power over you. If you want something besides food, the same situation exists. In the world today, your desires for things other than food are being created by some of the greatest human effort ever done, which is another topic, but you will see what I mean by considering advertising, marketing, and invention, the last of which creates desires that previously did not exist, like laptop computers. Then there is medical care.
Medical care has become big business. You can get your heart replaced. Well, you can get it replaced if you have the money; otherwise you are likely to just perish. Medical services are not provided to those who have no money. Sure there are charities and some medical service provided to those who have no money, but people are suffering and dying all over the world, even in the USA, because they don’t have enough money to get available medical help. Now, how does this compare to the coconut story above? You might do many things for someone to relieve your hunger, but when you are in the grips of excruciating pain, or your body is badly broken, you are likely to be even more motivated. What a wonderful way to make money! Just refuse to grant access to a product of society known as “medical care” unless money is provided. In a system that bases price on the strength of demand, how could you ask for a better means to set prices high? “Does it hurt bad? We can fix it for the right price.” It sounds very much like the story of coconuts. All this is going on today, and worse, while the least amount of notice and effort reveals that medical care as we have it today is only because so many have contributed to society so long.
The cost of education is not just books and tuition. What university exists solely as an island in society? They all use the roads and every other system that society provides. Without the vast amounts of time and effort supplied by the people, there would be no hospital or medical equipment, and no university. People would not be able to devote their time to the study necessary to become medical professionals. No doctor acquired the requisite knowledge to be a doctor without vast help from society. What would a person eat while spending the necessary time in study if there were no people making food available? The more one goes to school, the more one owes society. Ah, but that is backwards. The more one goes to school the more one deserves more money. This current attitude is devoid of reason, and absolutely oozing the worst form of discrimination.
Somehow you have accepted that you are not worth as much as someone else. That is the cold hard fact of the matter. You have accepted this lie, this delusion. If this is not your attitude, why then do you accept the limited access you have to the products of society? Even the highest paid doctors are getting less than some. Even they have accepted that they are worth less than someone else, if not consciously then by behavior. We have, nearly every one of us, accepted the delusion that some are worth more than others. The proof is in your pay, your profit, your returns. While you work away, even contentedly, you accept that you are not going to get full access to the products of society when there is no physical organic reason for it. It is discrimination.
You are being judged. Your value is being determined. The quality of your life is being set upon you through the instrument of money. You contribute to society and your contribution is compensated with some amount of money, which is, again, simply your access to the products of society. You are granted some level of access, but limited access, as represented by your money. Your value is being set for you.
You live on a planet that has had humans working incredibly hard on it for centuries. Humans have been very busy. The amount of work that has been done is beyond comprehension. We see remnants from thousands of years ago in the form of pyramids and such of the work that has been going on continuously for all these thousands of years. Everyone alive has inherited the products of the work done by the ancestors. In the USA there are few roads left to build. Lakes have been created. The list goes on and on. Surely you can understand this. A lot has already been done. We have inherited a lot of stuff, and the new born even more. Yet the work must go on. We must be ever productive, more and more all the time. It gets harder and harder to do enough work to satisfy our survival needs. Many perish because they cannot keep up the pace, or they cannot get back into the pace after the system has let them fall out of sync. Where does it all go? When is it enough?
In the USA, and the world at large for the most part, the people are required to work all their lives to provide for themselves. You must have a job and work at it to get money to buy the things you want and need, because you are not going to get access to the products of society unless you have money. There is retirement, sure there is. For most of you it is after you are so old and worn out that you don’t even have long left to live, and your retirement is an austerity demonstration. The exceptions to this are too few to make the situation acceptable. The exceptions, of course, are the wealthy, and in truth they only have it a little better than the rest of the people. In fact, there are ample reasons to claim that they do not have it any better, but worse. They only have access to the products of society and to the people. They don’t have greater access to peace, happiness, fulfillment, or any of the products that humans can create in a better world. The wealthy also have the burden of responsibility for the prevention of the fulfillment of Life on Earth.
When I get all the coconuts and prevent you from gaining access to them on the desert island, I am holding you down, back, and out. Money is no different. If I get all the money and prevent you from accessing it, I hold you down in much the same way. One source stated that corporations in the USA are sitting on nearly two trillion dollars, the exact number being unnecessary, and the the exact form being equally unnecessary. This number is above and beyond what they call “illiquid assets,” like buildings, real estate, machinery, and such. It also does not include the inherited work already done by humans. Those corporations use the roads, the utilities, and everything else. They hold enough money to eliminate hunger here, to provide medical care to those without access, and so much more. But they have no intention of any such actions. They hold their money while they claim they need more confidence that any use they apply the money to will result in even more money coming back to them, a return. They are held in high esteem. They are successful. They are seen as paradigms of the hope we all have. There is no hint, other than from this writer that they are hording the coconuts.
There is only so much money. If money is a “store of value,” as they put it, it must represent tangible products or services. People who have wealth are keeping you from getting better access to the products of society and they are using you to do their bidding, which is all the essential work and the work of increasing and protecting their wealth. They know that people desire better access to the products of society, so they must be ever vigilant against the people. You may have noticed the law enforcement and military expense in today’s world. If you think they are there to protect you, consider the nuclear bomb. The wealthy have plenty of protection against the nuclear threat. Do you? Do you think the military of another country would invade to get more people? In this densely populated world more people means more mouths to feed. Invaders are after land and wealth, usually. Furthermore, would you require a military if everyone had unlimited access to the products of society? A society that successful would be the inspiration of rapid duplication around the globe. The kicker is; such a society is not only possible, but great effort is being applied to prevent its inevitable manifestation by completely natural organic means.
There was a man named Thomas Robert Malthus who wrote some books in the late seventeen hundreds that spun a bit of sophistry about over-population and scarcity that have been invaluable tools in the suppression of the human spirit ever since. Today the world is in apoplexy over the growing population and the depleting resources. Malthus was a reverend in the Christian faith and a philosopher economist. He studied societies both present and past, and then postulated their extensions. He went against many well know persons who postulated quite the opposite of his views believing that humans could and would perfect society even unto utopia. The fact that Malthus worked solely within the parameters of society that operates in the usual manner was a great flaw in his thinking. His views assumed that there would always be money regulating access to the products of society. He saw how prosperity caused more births until there was less prosperity that slowed the birth rate. It was a fine bit of sophistry, ingenious. It was totally devoid of any true vision and comprehensive comprehension of society. It appears to be just a way to protect the wealth of the wealthy and to continue the perpetration of a terrible social system, the one that has a king at the top and peasants below.
People began to dislike the idea of Kings and Queens and the social system was modified so that those royals could have their positions without causing the people to revolt again. It was a clever move, and it has everything to do with your money. They merely stepped out of the spot light and temporarily increased the people’s access to the products of society while they devised ways to control the people. For the people was their only threat.
A person was no threat to the wealthy. Killing a person was easy. Killing or imprisoning a lot of people, though more difficult, was easy enough. The real threat has always been The People. Large numbers of people united in a cause stormed the palaces and executed the royals many times in history. This fact was not lost on the wealthy or the royals and they have been at great endeavors to use their wealth to get people to devise ways to prevent such things. Yes, they got the people they wanted to control to devise the means to do so.
Today the people are so outgunned it is ridiculous. The wealthy can bring to bear the unimaginable force of the world’s military might in defense of their wealth. Or maybe you think the military is not at the disposal of the wealthy, like they want you to think. Are those in power wealthy? I rest my case. If you are unable to see that the wealthy can bring to bear the might of the armed, just try to do anything against their wishes. You can end up in prison even if you have lots of money if you go against the greater wealth, or you can end up dead. It has happened many times, whether you are aware of it or not.
It stands as fact that money can get people to do things that a sentient being would find unimaginably horrible. We all know this. There is only one reason this condition exists; access to the products of society is limited. Discrimination is being done that shows the people that there are some who get more and this keeps a false hope alive in the hearts of the people, the hope to rise up to a similar level. The wealthy realized early that hope was essential to the maintenance of a strong and peaceful population of servants, though now they feel crowded by too many servants; yet another topic for later.
People who can get everything they want and need are difficult to manage into doing horrible things. Theft is a rare occurrence in a society that provides unlimited access to the products of society in return for a short term of service. The very character of the people in such a society is something altogether different than that of people in society as it is today, worldwide. When basic needs are met and access to the means of attaining personal fulfillment are readily available, beautiful people occur. In such a society the products of society become beautiful things, works of art, utility, and durability. People become productive in pursuit of their own personal dreams, health, well-being, and community/family desires. A society that is that successful generates generations of ever greater quality and beauty. Vistas become visible that have been shrouded in darkness, invisible to the minds that struggle for survival. The vastness of outer space becomes a beckoning frontier, and that frontier is likely limitless, as are its resources.
On Earth today, resources are being used to operate society. The world over societies, together comprising the super family of our species, operate in such a state of inefficiency that people like Reverend Malthus seem lucid. But the availability of resources and space are only a concern within the systems that operate society as it is today, and there is no reason to continue to operate society as it is today. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence that the super family of man is headed to its own destruction if the current systems are allowed to continue. Now, do you think you might like to break your mind free of its limits and at least try to envision a better way? Perhaps you could just consider the one you are reading about right now with a mind free of brainwashing that life has done to you since you came into this life.
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This article is testing the waters, so to speak. I have quite a bit of fear around presenting it to the world. Change frightens some. Some would like to see thing continue as they are. So, if I suddenly commit suicide, I really didn’t. Some things are worth dying for, as some things are worth living for. I fear those who oppose egalitarian altruism. I fear those who argue against utopia. The psychology of those people is hard to fathom. The “it can’t be done” crowd, don’t remember Edison and many others. That something doesn’t seem possible to you is not proof of your opinion. Opinions are limited to the scope of the consciousness of the opinion holder. They see reasons why something can’t be done instead of the obstacles that must be surmounted to reach the goal, or they have darker more sinister psychology. I fear there are those who have very sinister desires and who do such things. That is a subject for another time. I do fear that though. I do not fear to fear. Fear is a good thing. It helps me survive.
Anyway, I debated this article for some time. I wrote it quite a while back. The fact that you are reading it tells you what I finally decided. I want world peace, but I want even more. I want everyone to be fulfilled, provided their fulfillment doesn’t require sinister stuff. I want to live in a world of people who love everyone and everything, of happy people who are enjoying the adventure. I want to live in a world of people united in Truth. I am sick of the multitude of arguments on every subject of any importance. I want to live in a world of infinite diversity and possibilities. I do, actually. It just needs to be unfettered.
I have been hoping for decades to see a plan I created put into action. It is not easy for one who is as limited as I am to do much more than work all my life to make a modest living. I am restrained by humility and awareness of the psychological tendencies of my fellow human beings from putting the ideas in front of the world. So, here is where I choke down my reticence, dam the torpedoes, and launch into that vast sea. Try to be more than you already are, please. If you don’t want to help, try not to be a drag. I have been dealing with people who are for a very long time.
Try this yourself: tell someone something they have not considered before. It works best if it relates to something that refutes or modifies something they already are sure they have the right understanding about. Make something up if you need to and try some sophistry. Everyone should have a sound understanding of sophistry. You will have to be able to be observant and have a tough skin. Doing this will put you into a situation that is very much like the psycho analysis brought to us by Hermann Rorschach in which he showed people inkblots to see how they react. If you are presenting them with something you believe in or believe and think you can convince others, you will be doubly emerged in something that has been labeled “human psychology.” Frankly, I am quite sick of it. My life and my thoughts are so far out of the norm I have had to face it for nearly fifty years. I am about to do it again. This time with something that I think could and should be monumental. I will always know that whatever I think could be wrong. It makes sense to be that way, but it doesn’t mean I have no confidence. I have no doubt that what I am going to present here will work and can be done. I just don’t know if the human race is smart enough as a whole to get it done yet.
I may not be the smartest man in the world, but the comparison means nothing to me. It is everyone else who is into that sort of nonsense. I have defects, limitations, and faults. I don’t know much and certainly not everything. So, I always try to keep an open mind by not being blind to the possibility that I am wrong. When I discover my mistakes, I learn and correct them. I am not invested in being right. I am only invested in the truth, in wanting to know the truth and thereby being right without all the psychological garbage that has plagued mankind since the beginning. I will say that psychology is the bedrock, the foundation, of all that is wrong with the society of man. If we were not so screwed up, things would never have gone as they did in our long history and it would be much nice in the world today.
I had to write this personal part before writing out my ideas. I have presented them to many people already and seen the nasty underside of too many. Many have been able to see that this idea is a good one, too. So, let me get going. I don’t mean that in the “run away” sense. (laughing here) My courage is needed to do this. There are many reasons.
The Concept
Here you will find a simplified description of the system I have been conceiving since the early 1970s. I invite you to help me perfect it and make it happen. I have no desire for psychological malfunctions or negative feedback, especially if you have nothing yourself that you want the world to consider. I am doing something. At least I am trying. What are you doing? I know I sound sanicle and, perhaps, mean. You would too if you had experienced some of the things I have.
We can create a giant project that will go so far in the right direction it might become an historical milestone. Ground transportation vehicles, roads, transmission systems and other systems can be combined. Vehicles can be all electric and we will be able to ride most of the time instead of driving. Robot cars are not going to be acceptable. More and larger batteries are not acceptable either. Cutting down trees to make “telephone poles” and mutilating trees to keep the lines clear will have to stop. Deforestation and herbicide spraying along the large powerline corridors will be stopped. Friction will become minimal and the noise we now create when we drive will be reduced substantially. The system will make traffic jams a wonder of the past. We have already scraped away every living thing already there to build the world’s roads. We will put them to better use.
The infrastructure built around the internal combustion engine will be morphed and much will be eliminated. All these things and countless others that are a scourge to life and the planet will be stopped. The benefits will accumulate and domino. The future will be forever rearranged. The one unfolding right now is unthinkable.
We will have a new set of vehicle designs and an update of the road systems. Transportation will be faster, safer, quieter, and environmentally friendly. It will be beautiful, too. The benefits of this system are too many to list here. You can use your own mind to discover them. Maybe.
I can’t imagine there are many who have not seen the electric wires bearing electricity everywhere. You have been driving an internal combustion driven vehicle down the roads parallel to those lines for a long time. Sometimes they cross the roads and sometimes they are far from them. The power lines, the television lines, the phone lines, and all the lines that we have installed to server whatever function they serve are ubiquitous. They each are independent separate systems and a terrible waste of resources and human time. They are too vulnerable. It must have been required that they came about that way, but it is time to combine them with the roads so we can tap the electricity to propel our vehicles and to make one efficient system of transportation.. The power lines are nothing but a means to transport something other than biological beings. I think that is a little funny to think about, but I digress.
I will add to this blog as time permits. It doesn’t permit me to write much longer right now. I will take the time to draw the picture some, though. Take down the power line and install them in the traffic lanes. Let the engineers work out the details. We can put the power lines in the lanes in a way that makes the electricity available to the electric motors of vehicles attached to the road or riding a rail. Many ways to do this have been considered by this man knowing that there are others and maybe better ones. I need help. I am just a guy who saw a thing.
While we are putting electric lines in the roads, we can at least prepare them to receive the other transmission hardware; natural gas, water, television, telephone, sewer, and so on. The design engineers will have to study the infrastructure and determine exactly what will work best. Then the people will have to have input and an opportunity to approve or disapprove. It is time to examine all the systems and muster the people to build smarter systems combining where right and not where it isn’t.
It is necessary to explain that when the electric lines are installed in the roads, we can also build the means to attach the vehicles. We all watch the driver-less trains going along the tracks, the engineers are not actually driving them like we drive our cars. How is that no one ever thought of making the cars travel that way? I don’t know. I think someone did. It just got done differently anyway. We can have a rail to ride on and let it guide the vehicles. It is not my favorite method for many reasons. I’ll leave them for later. I want to attach the vehicles to something. I don’t want vehicles to come off the track. A slot like those in toy cars might be good. Ultimately, I would like to have the vehicles be attached so that they can be allowed to come off the ground and not fly away like the air transportation vehicle do. Make them more like kites tied to a string in a kid’s hand who is too heavy for the kit to lift. The vehicles can be built to have lift like planes do. That will minimize friction, reduce noise, and make the vehicles way cool to look at and fly/drive/ride.
I don’t know enough to design it, but I think we could use magnetics in a slot that propels the things the vehicles are attacked to. Couldn’t they be suspended in magnetic fields? That would be great. Then we could simply have an electric grid serving other needs that also pulls our jet-like vehicles that operate on batteries or some other means when off the grid.
I have already fielded responses that question the source of the electricity. I am not an electrical engineer. I am not an engineer of any kind, unless you want to consider me an engineer of ideas. I seem to be overflowing with them. One in particular answer the question often posed to me: “Where will we get all that electricity?” I am probably going to knock you to the floor with this answer: we will generate it by using gravity. Gravity cannot be exhausted. It is virtually free and everywhere. The means to do so are old and unnoticed. I noticed a very long time ago and developed better ways to do it. I am not going to divulge the system. It is for another place and time. But I will tell you that we can have far more electricity than we can ever use, and it will be free of pollution and provide a bounty of other stuff as byproducts. I like to call them side effects. Now you are probably experiencing that psychological stuff I wrote about earlier. (laughing again) It is just one of many I have somehow stumbled upon in my quests. Let me give you a clue. I’m feeling rather jocular at the moment. It feels good to get this out there and off my mind somewhat. The clue is nuclear power plants.
I am not proposing using nuclear. Never! I see the nuclear stuff as the stupidest thing ever. A four and a half billion years to become half as radioactive seems to be enough to prove this point. No nuclear anything. How we will handle what we have already done is going to be tough enough. We can do, but we need to be able to get off the planet and run about in the universe. Yes, the clue. A nuclear power plant is just a stupid steam generator. Can you believe it? I’ll bet you thought our species had really come up with something remarkable. You would be right if you were thinking so stupid it is remarkable. I’ll toss out the way to generate electricity soon enough. I may take the monetary approach and build a working model and make some money. I am deeply opposed to money, but if I had some, I might do some good. I might even be able to get money removed from the world.
Go to work and don’t get paid. Go to the store and don’t get asked to produce money for the things you get, and that includes all the products and services of society. See what I mean? I have been dealing with people over things that they have never even thought about for a long time. You have not seen much of what I have, either.
