It is strange to me to think that in a world where everything including the planet was given as a free gift with nothing more than the transference of energy needed to accomplish anything in a human life, that we created money. That we divided the planet up into sections we can buy and sell to each other and that we locked ourselves into this system over 10,000 years and now consider it to be the basis of our way of thinking.
No pursuit however intelligent is free of the constraints of money. With an endless number of planets to investigate and knowledge beyond our present understanding to understand, scientists have to ask for funding for projects and experiments to uncover them. And all those that are uncovered are covertly done so for the wealth they will generate amongst us.
And since this is a system the rich and poor are incontrovertibly connected – note how wealthy countries say the poor ones need to trade their way out of poverty to know this – and so we find that our decisions impact upon other people we don’t even know. And yet there are those who say they lock into the system and it works for them so it should work for everyone. It doesn’t And they are the reason it doesn’t. All enclosed systems lose power and it is a necessary concomitant of this system that the earth itself is losing the ability to sustain it.
Life and money are opposing forces.