Right. If we are going to think about the future of money we first need to know where it came from, what its history and background is and how its use, its meaning and its pitfalls have evolved throughout the ages.
If there is one thing we seem to take for granted it is that money is a good thing, that it is a great and efficient way to use for human transactions. It is, but...
Why, I wonder, are most, suggestions for the LEARN mission objective in the Future of Money about alternative currencies? This suggest to me something must be particularly wrong with the money that the wh*** of the world's economy is running on. And there is.
If you are not afraid of being shocked (and times irritated by the demagogic presenter) you will leaarn many things about money and the international monetary system by watching
The Money Masters, a 3 hour, yes three hours!, doc**entary which will uncover many well kept secrets about money. It's all being told in a somewhat conspiracy theory kind of way, but the essence is there for everybody to see. The makers also have a
website. If you make the effort of watching it, money will never be the same for you again, well worth the time.
In the Social Innovation Learn part of Evoke there are 33 secrets about Social Innovation, one of them is: "if somebody already invented it, you don’t have to". Money exists already, we do not have to invent it, we have to redefine it.
My two pennies.
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