If money is used in ways you find harmful, don't accept that money. People trade access to your work to wield power, and you can withdraw consent for them to do so by rejecting that money. If people think money is being used for bad, they can stop it. Free people control the influence of money on their world.
Free people control the influence of money on their world.
Those free people will last all of about five minutes against an organized armed force raised up by someone who doesn't care about idealism but does come in at the beginning of your system with plenty of resources.
Sitting around the campfire singing songs about the dignity of trading labor for money is incompatible with reality.
Resources are an illusion that requires your consent to maintain. That armed force is getting paid with money that people have to agree to accept for it to be worth anything. Alternatively, that armed force could enslave the people at gunpoint, but that's pretty hard to sustain in the vast majority of the world.
This might sound crazy, but we just haven't had the technology to implement this sort of system until recently. It requires a decentralized ledger of all payments, which is a pretty new thing. Now that we have it, you can decide to only accept money that has been traded by people who follow your rules. If the people choose to do so, they can make it impossible to be subjugated by money.
My email's in my profile. Open to talking about this any time. I know it sounds crazy, but I truly believe that this new capability we have can be used to liberate people.
If you could wipe out all of human history up till now and start over fresh with a completely clean slate, then maybe. The problem is that there's already an unbalanced system in which there are people who control vast resources and are able to use that control to bribe or coerce others into doing what they prefer, which causes your scheme to be dead on arrival.
The people overthrew kings, and they were up against the same imbalance of power. I think it's going to be even easier this time. Potential loyalists will be able to see those who would bribe them lose buying power as the people declare that they won't accept any money they've touched. The playing field is actually lopsided in the people's favor. They just need to be told and given the tools to use their power.
Wealth is a social construct, and we now have the technology to modify that social construct without anyone's permission. If we wield it carefully, we might be able to build a better society with this power.
