How money is a powerful idea and tool.

If the majority of people had multidisciplinary knowledge and systems thinking we’d be way beyond where we are now. We’d allow science and technology to be used for our common societal benefits, not for the profits of the industrial tops.


One could argue that In our monetary-based society the vast majority is busy with surviving by doing jobs they hate so the last thing they care about is learning about what matters in the world. Even the corporate rich folks, as Yuval fairly pointed out, are too busy to learn how to see the big picture.


Though not many realize that breaking up with money is incredibly hard systematically. Money is an idea that unites everyone as everyone believes in its existence despite your our age, nationality, religion or political affiliation. If tomorrow everyone stopped believing in money, it will be gone but then there would chaos as there’s no replacement of such a powerfully uniting idea that everyone believes in. Another powerful side of money is its usefulness as a tool. Humans have been creating and using tools for millions of years; our tools have changed a lot over that time but our brains have not changed much; physiologically, we have the same brain that our ancestors, hunters and gatherers had, now using digital devices instead of spears to get our food.

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Written by Irina Le

Published by Earthetics

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One thought on “How money is a powerful idea and tool.

  1. money is a scientific tool it is a simplified tool to record how much we can value something so we don’t need to recalculate every time, yes money crime exist but isn’t the fault of money as nature isn’t perfect to

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