Bluesphinx

Hello folks.

 The other day whilst looking around the ‘tinterweb’ to see if I could find any references to my book I Googled “Cashless society forums” and came across the following entry from a person going by the name of E-Maither. I must admit, reading it gave me a buzz, so I’ll share it with you.

“Hi,
 I have just stumbled upon this website, and to my great joy I find many like minded people. I have been proposing a moneyless society for years, but always come up against the same objections from people who while they hate the present system, or are indifferent to it, will not even consider any alternative.
 They know that money lies at the bottom of all poverty, greed, most crime, wars, hardship, and suffering. They are aware that it is used as the ultimate means of control by the few over the many. They even realise that it is a totally man made concept, and has nothing to do with nature’s plan–you don;t see the animal kingdom hurting, abusing, and controlling one another for the love of money.
 They come out with the old lines like, ‘Yes I know it’s bad, but better the devil you know…’ or ‘ How can we possibly change the status quo, it’s always been there…’ (That one from the school of the bloody obvious!)
 But by far the most common objection is ‘it CAN’T work! How would you get anyone to work if there was no money?’
 What a blinkered short-sighted response! Like there is nothing in life worth doing unless it’s for monetary gain. These people don;t seem to understand that (A) this greed based attitude is BORN of a monetary based economy, and (B) Believe it or not, people do have a sense of vocation–look at the lifeboatmen for an example of people instinctively doing something just because it’s the right thing to do. Given the chance to be rewarded in other ways than by means of filthy lucre, most of us would be happy to work for the good of all, including ourselves, instead of working for money that can and is so easily taken away from us.
 OK, so how do we persuade people to do the less attractive, but equally important things necessary for society to function?
 I got the anser from a little book I read called Windfall of the Wise, by Max Speed. In it the author suggests that everyone works for no more than twenty years and becuse they work they are entitled to everything they need to enjoy a fulfilled and contented life. And EVERYONE does the menial/boring/unpleasant jobs for one day of their working week. In other words, if you work, it is noted (electronically) and you get anything you need from a bowl of soup to a house to live in. If you don’t work, you get nothing. Quite simple really.
 Greed is greatly frowned upon, no one is allowed to take more than they need otherwise they risk enduring public distain–much like drink driving is viewed with great distain by many people, and apart from the legal consequences, people find that distain a deterrent in itself.
 You retire at forty, because without money, everyone can afford to do so, and that allows young people to step into the workboots of the older generation of retirees. There would be 100% full employment.
 Children are brought up learning these new values.
 I can see that the biggest problem would be first of all convincing people to change things, and overcoming their fear of the unknown would probably be the biggest challenge to creating the new society, and that aspect is not very clearly emphasised in the book. It seems to look at the successful working of the new system at some point in the future when those hurdles have been jumped.
 Maybe this set up is not perfect, and no doubt someone could spend a little time highlighting a few more problems with it, but to dismiss it in favour of keeping the venal old system that we all presently endure would surely be great folly, and will I’m sure, lead to our eventual demise.
It may be an utopian ideal, but apart from the authors arguments being a very good starting point for debating reform, it has GOT to be better than what we have now.
 Has anyone else out there read this book? I would be keen to hear your views on it.”

 Thank you, E-Maither, nice to know that there are indeed some people out there who like myself have seen the light. I hope there are more of you.

 To simplify the theory, let me put it this way: At present we are all enslaved by money, we work hard or easy, but in the end the bottom line is that we are all rewarded by a cetain amount of it. For the majority of us the reward is not enough to pay for the cost of living. But in my ideal world, the world that I’ve written about in Windfall of the Wise, if you work your work is electronically recorded, and irrespective of the work that people do, they are rewarded not by money to be used to try and aquire the things in life that they need, but instead they are rewarded with the ability to obtain these things directly.

 In my world we have eradicated the ‘Middle man’, I.E. Money, and replaced it with a much fairer, more just system, in which the controlling power of money, and those who rule us by it are no more. This system would also eliminate advertising, crime, greed, povery, hardship, and war. I’m sure many other world evils would become extinct if money were to be made history–read the book and see if you can list them.

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