What happens to a life when there’s no more desire for “more”?
To be very specific, what happens to a life when it ceases being a relentless pursuit of money? I think back to my church confirmation classes and remember being taught that the “love” of money is the root of all evil. But we’ve learned that money is nothing more than a storehouse of value and a method of exchange. In today’s world, it’s nothing more than ones and zeroes contained in a computer database/ledger. It also begs the question: Who’s in charge or control of the “ledger”?
Our money can “disappear” at any time- as it has in America before. Does anyone remember confederate currency? Because it was a fiat currency (meaning it had no intrinsic value, just like our current dollars) and was backed by a government that ceased to exist, confederate currency collapsed and had no value at the end of the Civil War. Those who were “rich” by confederate currency standards were left penniless. I guess the moral of that story is having “more” shouldn’t necessarily make you feel more secure and that you should never assume the unlikely is impossible.
Actually, the disappearance of money doesn’t even need to be so draconian or dramatic as followed by a governmental collapse. Inflation is a hidden danger and stealth destroyer of monetary “wealth”. Inflation is the general level of prices over time. I like to think of it as a general *increase* in the cost of a “basket” of goods and services over time. For example, I would need $661.92 in 2007 dollars to buy what $100 could buy in 1965, the year I was born. A loaf of bread cost a whopping 21 cents then- compare that to today!
Reasonable people ask why this is. It’s because our money supply is manipulated by a financial cartel in the form of the Federal Reserve. As more dollars are injected into the money supply and “made available”, the value of the dollars already existing in circulation *falls*. Therefore, you need increasing amounts of dollars to buy the same amount of goods and services over time.
Recently I was referred to a 60 Minutes segment about David Walker which was broadcast originally back in March, 2007. Don’t know who David Walker is? Don’t feel bad, neither did I. Up until March of this year, he was the US government’s top accountant, the Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office. He pegs our national debt at $53 TRILLION dollars, not $9 TRILLION and paints a picture of our country’s economic future so grim, it’s as compelling as it is utterly chilling. I consider it a “must see”.
I’m left pondering whether the “endgame” plan is the bankruptcy of the United States (with its corresponding debt default and monetary collapse) to “make way” for something new- I believe George Herbert Walker Bush (41) called it a ” New World Order”.
Wouldn’t that be a hoot? I wonder how the people who spent the entirety of their lives in the sole and relentless pursuit of money are going to feel?