Money: The root of all evil?

There is currently a lot of talk about the fact that the Occupy Movement do not seem to know what they want. I think this is probably right because this movement are about what people know they don’t want anymore.

We have all been fed the line that communism doesn’t work nor does socialism so capitalism is all that is left but in reality none of these ism’s have ever been tried because they have all been corrupted by the people at the top who have altered these systems for their own ends and that includes capitalism. If we had real capitalism then the financial world would not have been bailed out, the banks would have been allowed to fail and the bankers would now be begging because the state does not have a role in true capitalism where the market rules and there are no subsidies or bailouts.  Another thing that the Occupy Movement know is wrong is the massive accumulation of wealth by the few but this is not about money because, just as we haven’t had any of the ism’s we also haven’t had money as it was originally conceived for a long time either.

The original concept of money was, if you did some work for someone, instead of paying you in pigs which wouldn’t fit in your pockets you were given tokens that everybody agreed represented pigs and you could then use these tokens to exchange for pigs when necessary or if you didn’t need pigs then for anything else that took your fancy. Our present problems began when money, which in itself is mere paper and metal, ceased to represent pigs and became a commodity in its own right to be bought and sold and lent and profited from (Usury).

The present occupation of St Pauls is particularly ironic and appropriate because the Christian church along with Islam, Buddhism and Judaism foresaw the danger of money becoming a commodity and considered Usury to be evil and all preached against it and punished those who did it. It’s a pity that all but Islam have conveniently forgotten this.

The problem with allowing money to become a commodity is that this has allowed a few people to hoard a lot of it. Because of this hoarding the supply of money is running out but unlike any other commodity we can’t just dig more of it up or grow more and it’s a lie to suggest the financiers can create wealth because they can no more create wealth than we can we create more metal or food.

The system’s answer to this problem is called Quantitive Easing which simply means that because we can’t mine or grow more money, we have to print more of it. The problem here is, if you print too much money it then becomes worthless and the rich are not going to let that happen. The only other alternative therefore is to claw back some of what is already out there in the common man’s pockets.

This means higher taxes, wage cuts, cuts to public services, greater productivity (more for less), privatisation (public wealth into private pockets), creative accountancy tricks and of course if all else fails WAR.

Do not be fooled into thinking that any of this is unavoidable; it is only being done because money has been allowed to become a commodity and is running out. What the rich are doing is simple theft because this is like someone coming round to your house and taking back your car, your fridge and your washing machine because we have run out of metal and can’t mine any more.

So what is the solution to the problems caused by allowing money to have become a commodity in its own right?

The solution is to return money to its original status as a means of exchange and reintroduce the sin of Usury. This would not mean the end of capitalism as it would still allow people to work and get paid for their labour, people could still develop new ideas and exploit new resources. All that would be different is that we would not have to support the parasite that is the financial sector and the people in this sector would have to get a proper job doing something useful for society, or starve. If any of you still doubt the virtual nature of money, that it should not be treated as a commodity and that the financial world is a glorified computer game then consider this:

If metal was to disappear overnight, when you woke up in the morning you would probably find yourself lying on the floor with your house collapsed around you and a very different world to have to get used to.

If money was to disappear overnight, when you woke up in the morning nothing else will have changed except the financial parasites would be out of a job.