Modern money is a con,
based on the most fundamental type of deception, misdirection. The deception is the commonly accepted notion that modern currency divisions have some existential status that should be kept stable. If the prices of products stated in dollars actually remained stable, then money would be redundant. We’d have only to produce and trade, no bargaining would be necessary. The bid economy would be dead. But price is the constantly volatile measure of the relative value of various goods. Having highly stable prices in dollars while the numbers of dollars are driven up and down is not stability, it is manipulation.
Most of modern economics is the study and direction of this manipulation.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does call into question the status of economics as a science.
Money is relative,
but relative to what? How much money is there? Is the value of the money that you hold dependant on how much other money there is? What is money today? Where does it come from? Who creates it? What effect does that creation have on the money you hold? If you cannot easily answer these questions or even if you can, if you’re not rich, then....
the odds that you are being screwed by money are very high.
What I hope to offer here is a method to screw money so that it cannot continue to screw the poorest ninety-eight percent of humanity.
As in most cons, those perpetrating the fraud depend on ignorance.
The first step
in defeating the con artists is acquiring knowledge of how money works.
This web page collection is dedicated to transforming
human thought on MONEY. Its principle goal is to create
a new Negotiation Space in which to Navigate our lives.
These pages are created by Stephen C. Clark
Steve can be reached at fortunatus@jaspersbox.com