‘If your bank deposits could be confiscated’
Money held in Bank deposits is like the stuff we store in the garage,
or in those big warehouses that specialise in storing stuff you don’t
immmediately need. If the storage unit burnt down we could still
survive. We accumulate stuff like we accumulate money…. in case we might
need it later. Our attachment to property or money is a substitute for
community, it allows us to feel we can manage alone. It is a denial of
our interdependence. If the financial system breaks down, as seems
inevitable according to Paul Craig Roberts : http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Paul-Craig-Roberts-Transcr-by-Rob-Kall-130330-454.html
we need to turn to each other. All the signs are that we are in the
middle of a system breakdown. No good trying to hold on to it or patch
it up. It never really served us anyway. Young Kim is right. We need
to find true value in community, in sharing. It is not going to be easy
to shift from a competetive economy to a collaborative one, but we
really have no choice.The hard bit is recognising that there is a real
alternative, and that actually is what we have always wanted but never
believed possible. ‘A civilization in which socially and environmentally
friendly free association between autonomous producers and citizens
becomes the norm’ – Michel Bauwens p2p-foundation.
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