There are many existential threats to humanity that most people can easily call to mind: Climate change, viral pandemic, tsunamis, earthquakes, asteroid collisions, and so on.
What most surprises me is that there is one most everyone cannot recall but that we have lived with for centuries with a global impact greater than any plague. This “man-made” threat has been a silent scourge for over 90 percent of the world’s population but nothing has been done to truly remedy it.
That threat, of course, is money.
To think that our world’s nations are for the most part united in our battles against global warming and the ever-present novel coronavirus, I wonder if we could also unite to create a new system of exchange that allows humanity to fully thrive without the weight of indentured servitude hanging around our necks. Surely, if humans have the ingenuity and persistence to solve other threats to our existence, then we can find a remedy for this one.
When that happens, we would be ready to manage all other existential threats without worrying about “where the money will come from” to solve them.
