Yet, if one has ever ridden beyond their ability an accelerating horse, they remember that by the time they realized they could not stop the horse, they could then only wish that they had slid from his back earlier. We wagered a quarter of a century ago that the exponential horse was going to carry us so quickly and so far that the technological solution would inevitably be found. I remain unable to perceive it, if it does not include a quantum leap reorganization of society, its property relations, its conception of wealth and well-being. The magnitude of the change that we contemplate should be comparable to the magnitude of the problems we confront. Certainly there could be nothing more revolutionary than contemplating that we might be able to build a world where this Newtonian element no longer prevailed, and nothing initially seeming more absurdly impossible of realization.
Allocative efficiency is the theoretical justification for the usage of money.
It was better that greater possibility be concentrated into few hands, that only a few nations be with a luxuriousness of real capital, by which to best foster development of what be needed, before the limitations of the earth overwhelmed and rendered progress impossible. It is a very long wave that we have been upon, since the beginning of recorded history, but that does not mean the time for its recedence can never come. Now, we must seek progress in our relations to one another and to the earth. We cannot move in one step from the labyrinth of monies bound to money, to its replacement with a sharing beyond that principle of separation, nor shall we move without immersion and excellence within that labyrinth. We cannot even admit that such be our goal.