Your analysis is wonderful as far as it goes Ann. Where it falters is in failing to recognize the present monetary applied concept which is Debt ONLY. The word ONLY designates it as a MONOPOLY paradigm not unlike the last monopoly paradigm we dealt with which was Salvation Via Roman Catholic Sacraments…ONLY.

Conceptual monopolies are the bane of human history, and a conceptual analysis of the history of paradigm changes reveals that the answer to monopoly is not advocation of opposites but THE INTEGRATION OF OPPOSITES TO THE POINT OF THIRDNESS GREATER ONENESS which is the classic signature and intellectual process of WISDOM. Furthermore, an analysis of historical paradigm changes reveals that their beneficial effects have always been an aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace as in a UNITARY/THIRDNESS GREATER ONENESS OF A PROBLEMATIC DUALITY (like debt and monetary gifting) and again results in a new mental and temporal universe reality whose aspects are one or more of the voluminous other aspects of grace. We need a new monetary paradigm that ushers in a Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

By the way I very much like your idea of social basics. What we need is an integration of work ethic and other positive human purposes to the point of thirdness greater oneness of those two human virtue creating activities.

One aside here. I’m not necessarily suggesting any particular religiosity here by invoking the word grace. You’ll pardon the expression: God save us from the gross moralists and the religious obsessives. I am suggesting we stop mistaking the map of religious orthodoxy for the topography of the self actualization of the values and experiences espoused in those orthodoxies.