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Agreed. I would like to see Charles Eisenstein debate Schiff. I think they would agree on a lot in terms of the root causes of our current economic problems, but would have vastly ideas about how to solve things. Eisenstein understands Austrian Economics and Libertarian thought well enough to actually press Schiff on a lot of things.

I foresee a day when people exchange resources with each other freely without money altogether.

Debt will become obsolete. No one will give what isn't available (loans exist primarily because banks can print money, which is a nonsense ledger).

Charles Eisenstsein explores some of these ideas in his book, Sacred Economics.

Energy exchange can commence as it does presently, albeit one of the subsequent iterations (money) will become peripheral, superfluous.

All money can do, will do, and has ever done is this: curate action, convey value, and retain memory. These are preeminent within human relationships. Only when human relationships are imbalanced does it become necessary to assign people to extra-personal signification.

The pyramids pre-date coinage. And should humans land on Mars, we will require infrastructure to modulate energy flows. A bank will not be needed. It will be an architecture of intelligent energy management and human relationships.

Yes, good point. Modern culture also places a lot of emphasis on endless busyness and productivity, often to the detriment of nature's fecundity. In this day and age, to live simply and let things simply live is a positive sum factor.

Foodnotlawns is also a good strategy and alternative approach to monoculture, grasses, and loud pollution machines on repeat to maintain a mostly unused aesthetic.

Related: Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition, by Charles Eisenstein

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sacred economics

• Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition (2011)

> ...This book is about how the money system will have to change—and is already changing—to embody this transition. A broadly integrated synthesis of theory, policy, and practice, Sacred Economics explores avant-garde concepts of the New Economics, including negative-interest currencies, local currencies, resource-based economics, gift economies, and the restoration of the commons. Author Charles Eisenstein also considers the personal dimensions of this transition, speaking to those concerned with "right livelihood" and how to live according to their ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money. Tapping into a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought, Sacred Economics presents a vision that is original yet commonsense, radical yet gentle, and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen.

• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

from a review:

> ...Anand Giridharadas writes in his acknowledgements, his purpose for writing this book was as an “inquiry into the apparatus of justification” that permits the wealthy to win at all costs, including extractive business practices that result in growing inequality and environmental damage, only to position themselves as having the answers to the problems that they have contributed to creating and accelerating. While his focus is on the uber wealthy, Giridharadas tenaciously exposes a universal human deficit: We all struggle to recognize our two selves—the person we aspire to be and the person we are. What continuously came up for me as I read Winners Take All is the need people have to be seen as good, but not being able to make the personal sacrifices (i.e. not winning) that real goodness demands.