Solutions: Money Must Die

Money Must Die

The Parable of Time.

Once upon a money there was a world where time had been appropriated as a cultural confabulation and a certain section of the society there had made it a rule that everybody had to pay them for every second of every day because time had been conceived of and computed by them and there for they owned the time.

This may seem astounding to us here in our rational monetary society but in this society there had been no conception of or accounting of time and they had a very egalitarian system of transacting business and trade for thousands of years and then in one century some scientists came up with the notion of living beings being stuck in time.

So they invented little machines called time pieces and convinced people that they needed to have this time thing and that they had to pay for it with time. This society never invented money as it was an egalitarian libertarian place up till the invention of time.

For the service of time keeping all one had to do originally was to sign a contract that one would come and contribute a small amount of time to the timekeepers. Somehow over the centuries this evolved gradually to where the elite timekeepers had everyone giving over 10% then 20% then 30% of their time for the service of timekeeping and all sorts of institutions arose to keep track of time and how much all your free time was worth and how much time you had to contribute to the time keepers for that time. Until today when we come upon this society in collapse and saw them all befuddled and no one could manage to have enough time left over after they used their time for what they needed they would not have enough time left over for the timekeepers and thus the timekeepers would have to come round and take away the possessions of the time cheaters and make rules penalizing them and kicking them out of the time system. The various nations of this world broke up into warring factions and started trading time in all sorts of creative and amazing ways and were constantly at war over who owed who how much time.

Then someone came up with an amazing solution: What if we just used clocks for free and everyone used time universally as a tool granted by the creator??? We don’t need timekeepers and to keep track of how much time is owed and how much time is taxed all we need is a universal agreement that time is free and we can all use it.

This guy was promptly declared a heretic and crucified and the civilization went on to have wars and destroyed its planet as we can see on the transmissions we received recently from their planet.

Silly eh?

Once upon a time there was a world where people traded stuff amongst themselves and one day one of them thought hey folks, why don’t we make these metal things into symbols of our stuff and trade these instead of trying to figure out how many eggs equal so many apples or so many boards. Then some few started being more clever than others and they piled up big mounds of these metal symbols, these ones got more and more powerful and eventually became a ruling class, then some ne thought hey why not put these symbols in a safe place called a bank, and soon some few humans ended up symbolically and culturally owning everything and the rest of us own nothing, and culturally are nothing, and on until now even the ruling classes and the nation states are ensnared in a system where they themselves are enslaved to some bizarre system where they don’t even own themselves anymore . All are enslaved to the machines of money and interest and inflation and none can see then master.

Pretty Damn Silly.