Economic Discrimination

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When truth becomes the casualty, people need to stand up for what they want.


There is nothing wrong with our economic system, except that there is no defined and protected value placed on Humanity and Nature, making them easy targets for exploitation. What we are encouraged to identify as racial discrimination is simply economic discrimination, (made possible because human value and values assigned to nature are subjective and never constant). Economic discrimination is Worldwide, hiding like a wolf in sheep's clothing, limiting the conversation to them vs us, rich vs poor, my color vs yours, my lifestyle vs yours, my country vs yours. The real conversation should be much more insightful. We are all being influenced and formed by the economics that has evolved to this present age. A kind of bullying is taking advantage of the adverse effects of modern economic stresses, limiting our understanding. These bullys protect their elite status by asserting that social and economic stresses can all be traced to racism and nationalism. Making whole groups and countries into scapegoats for our frustrations and anger. We are all blended now and a part of the same conversations, thanks to the internet. There is no “them or us”. Division is enforced with lies, an old trick that distracts and confuses. It is important to keep in mind amidst all the talk, that the most powerful force affecting and influencing modern life is economics and economic discrimination keeps us apart.


What are we going to do about it? It doesn't take much convincing to persuade people that we are creatures of the money system and its advantages and disadvantages. Let's consider what money can buy: education, food, shelter, healthcare, power, influential jobs, etc. Then consider, lack of money: it causes starvation, no shelter, no healthcare, or educational opportunities, no living wage jobs. Economic discrimination is the most powerful kind of discrimination,(made possible through withholding the means to live), is much more effective than racial discrimination which comes after economic discrimination has done its work, weakening and enslaving whole masses of society.


How did we get here? What are we going to do about it? First, we need a general understanding about what money is. We are not meant to be its slaves, it is meant to be our slave, a way to efficiently exchange goods and services, not a tool for bullies to consolidate power and control populations. Racism and nationalism are the little brothers of economic discrimination. They are symptoms that arise from economic inequality.

 A short history of money. Approx 1,173 years ago people were considering ideas of wealth and whether it should be held privately or shared… The refinement of those decisions, that we live with now, have evolved into a form of Worldwide Capitalism, which can be defined as industrial capitalism, (the development of the factory system of manufacturing and division of labor). This kind of money distribution system has created the very rich and the very poor and the middle class has slowly been eroding away. Multitudes are cut off from acquiring the most basic needs of survival.

 

What is money? It is a shared belief system that assigns value, subjectively.


It can be modified and added on to, as it has been historically. The strict division created by capitalism has been forming for more than 100 years. This is not a long time but it has influenced the lives of almost two generations. The institutional knowledge of times before has been lost to the general public and remains alive only for historians and in history books. The main thing to understand is that money systems evolve. There have been different systems before and there will be different systems in the future.

 How do we want the money system of the future to function? What do we want its impact to look like? What is missing from the present economics? We can get answers by going back to what is not protected in the present dominant economic system, arguably the most important things, Humanity and Nature. A minority of countries that did include protections for people and nature in their societal/economic structure are still benefiting. But they cannot help being influenced and changed by the dominant economics.


How do we protect humanity and nature from economic exploitation? This can be done by making sure everyone has access to the basic needs that sustain life, from birth to death. The human possession of basic needs, food, shelter, education and healthcare must be the base equivalency of human value within economics. When the basic needs of dignified survival are met, nature benefits also. Exploitation of nature caused by human desperation will eventually end. 


How do we proceed? We don't need to get rid of everything that we have already developed. We need to add to what we have and that addition will help the present system evolve. A parallel currency can be added to the existing currencies, Worldwide. A currency dedicated only to basic needs. It cannot be used for anything else and this currency cannot be saved or invested and is destroyed when it reaches a bank. I have described this parallel currency, (often referred to as Energy Currency), in detail in other blogs and will not go into it here. (Link to the blog, Why Energy Currency?)


We are a human collective and can be prophets of a future economic system. Governments will not propose a parallel currency for basic needs. They cannot innovate but they can respond. Each of us is an agent of change. Our conversations with each other can influence not only other individuals but governments. We are the ones that have the potential of applying our collective intelligence to creating a form of economics that makes possible new communities of living, preservation of human dignity and protection of nature.

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