This isn’t your average “money talk”
By: Greg Rajewski
Tags: Evolution, Money, Equality, Philosophy, Social Change

In case you haven’t noticed, humanity has a money problem … and we need to talk about it.

However, this isn’t your regular money conversation where we talk about budgets, bills, or retirement savings.

This one’s very different.

As you have probably already realized or are even vaguely aware, our world economies are at serious risk of collapse as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. We are seeing nation governments pay out billions of dollars in coronavirus aid packages to their businesses and citizens. There’s a small knot in our bellies because we know that, when the pandemic is finally behind us, all these public debts will come back to haunt us. We wonder to ourselves if our countries can withstand the shock to their finances and the austerity measures that will surely follow.

For anyone who has studied the rise and fall of money markets, this is nothing new. Although the collapse of world economies is not unusual, do we really need another market crash to remind us of the unnecessary suffering they bring and how our forward progress is set back by several decades?

And this brings me back to the point of our conversation.

It’s simple actually.

It’s about asking two basic questions: 1) Have you ever asked yourself what is the point of money and 2) over thousands of years of human history, do you think money has helped societies move forward, or has it held them back?

To be fair, how you answer will depend on whether you are among the world’s wealthiest individuals (the “1%”) or the least wealthy (the “99%”) as each group’s perspective of money is vastly different.

Regardless of your wealth status, I think you would intuitively agree that money has created more misery than happiness; more technical stagnation than innovation; more sickness than health; and more disparity than equal opportunity for all.

As if to drive the point home, the economic fallout from the pandemic has caused a tragic spike in suicides, drug overdoses, and domestic abuse and provides a present-day reminder that we must decide between what is more important to us: The health of our money markets or the health of our society.

It is my belief that society must come first and that the concept of trading money for products or services needs to be seen for what it is: An outdated practice of reciprocity that has been observed for hundreds of years and that has only brought wealth to a few to the detriment of many while the poor continue to believe that, one day, things will be different. Some define that type of belief as insanity but we need to be smarter than that. We need to evolve our thinking to understand the existential threat that the continued use of money poses to all of us.

The greatest obstacle to such an evolutionary leap in thinking will be to bring all nations together to envision a money-less world where we no longer keep track of what is owed for a product or service. Where raw materials can be manufactured into finished products and delivered to everyone without expectation of payment. Where we can work in industries and businesses that are based on the sole concept of supporting society to the benefit of all. Where financial ledgers no longer need to be balanced. Where taxes need not be imposed. Where humanity can evolve to have “the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to (our) fullest mental, spiritual and physical unfoldment” without the need to get rich.

It won’t be easy, but compare that to the prospect of a lifetime of digging ourselves out of the projected $200+ trillion global debt which has only worsened as a result of the pandemic. Which scenario would you prefer?

We have a decision to make: Fashion a new world where money is no longer our Master and where mental, spiritual, and physical evolution are all that matter, or remain in our existing world where we continue to suffer under the weight of debt and servitude to the “Almighty Dollar”.

Let this be the time we decide to no longer serve the Master … because time is running out.

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