The financial powers that be are trying to make us all be slowly boiled frogs on a train in a super slo-mo wreck….because they think we’re stupid, apathetic and or distracted from distraction by distraction. We need to show them that we’re smarter, more ethically aware and focused than that.

Infrastructure funding is absolutely part of the way forward, but if we simply settle for that we’ll never actually stabilize the economy…and the Banks will still rule because they’ll still be playing on their home field THE PARADIGM OF DEBT ONLY. Integrating debt and monetary gifting directly to the individual and reciprocally from merchant to consumer and then back to the merchant is the real deal, the real solution, the ethical solution. There’s no equivocating with domination and manipulation. We have to see clear enough to completely understand that and not fritter freedom away with compromises and “reasonableness”.

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Again, I’m not against cost cutting, but looking for a complete economic solution via the costs of the money system leaves the unaccounted for costs of depreciation of ever increasing capital….unaccounted for…and hence an incomplete “solution”.

Three hundred years ago technology and capital weren’t nearly at the level they are now. Capital wears out and obsolesces and must be replaced and ALL COSTS MUST GO INTO PRICE. Hence, increasingly, the rate of flow of total costs/prices always tends to exceed the rate of flow of total individual incomes simultaneously produced. The economy is inherently and increasingly cost inflationary due to the costs of depreciation of capital. This may offend the intellectual vanities of economists and various pundits and undermine their less inherent causes of our economic and monetary problems. A Banking system that operates in the public interest is a key structural part of the solution and will help hold in place and re-inforce the policies that will solve the entirety of the monetary and economic problem and which are also exact reflections of a new monetary paradigm of Grace as in direct and reciprocal Gifting.

And even if one doesn’t understand or does not care to confront the fact of the problem being inherent excess costs in ratio to individual incomes, innovation and AI are going to reduce aggregate individual incomes so severely in years to come that the above policies of Gifting will be necessary to stabilize the system anyway.

The system is already digital by nature, and while algorithms will undoubtedly increasingly cybernate the accounting process the “hobby horse” confusing of freedom with chaos block chain “solutions” of libertarians coupled with their irrational computation that government is synonymous with tyranny belies the logic that if policies actually effect individual freedom and systemic free flowingness….then freedom A = A…freedom.

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Yes, money is a wonderful, fungible and functional tool, we just have to account costs more accurately is all, and then wed an economic philosophy of grace as in gifting to policies that perfectly reflect that philosophy. And of course adopting an ethic of graciousness is a personal and social solvent that gets ignored, invalidated or lost in the shuffle of our increasingly distracted lives. Grace/graciousness which is the pinnacle concept and experience of Wisdom is owned by no religion and is simultaneously the bottom line experience pointed at by all of the world’s major Wisdom traditions. Contemplate the aspects of Grace including non-grasping…and you can’t go wrong.

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I completely agree. Crypto-currencies are and will be turned into just another warped Financialization/speculation by the Banks compelled by their greed/basic psychology of insecurity, and is a distraction from true monetary and economic reform that attempts to balance the traditionally productive parts of the economy for the traditionally productive agents of the economy…the individual and commercial business models OTHER THAN Finance.