Imagine taking all the monetary value in the world and multiplying it by zero.
What’s left behind?
Everything except money.
All infrastructure, goods and services would remain because these items are not dependent on the existence of money. Of course, the knee-jerk reaction would be to say that these things exist precisely because of money since they would not be possible without cash “lubricating the gears” of industry.
However, this reflex reaction is born from the paradigm that money (read: profit) always was and always will be what drives and motivates everything from digging the raw materials from the ground to producing the finished product to delivering it to your local store to paying the employee who sells it to you.
At least, that’s one way to look at it.
What if you were to take that same scenario, but remove the profit motive and replace it with a new one? For example, the motive to have whatever you need without cash determining whether those raw materials can be extracted from the ground, finished and shipped to your local store.
Can you imagine how your life would be if we had a world exactly as it is right now where the gears of industry would continue to turn but without money involved at any step of the way?
Weird. I know.
However, every new idea takes time to be adopted and adjusted to. This one is no different.
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.“
