What is the role of money in society?
Question from the Internet:
“Why does money have so much power?”
Money is a trading tool, helping us to obtain what we want and what we need. Money represents our ability to acquire possessions and resources and through them everything that we deem important in life.
As a result, money has become the symbol of life, as we have built a human civilization where with money we can seemingly and literally buy and obtain everything.
So in our society, everything is measured by monetary worth, even people. Everything has its price, moreover, we have built systems when we generate more, “virtual money” out of nothing, without any actual physical “assets” or foundations.
The problem with this system — based on our inherently egocentric, subjective and exploitative nature — is that since our inherent engine, our desire for pleasures is insatiable and constantly grows, we constantly need more money in order to pay for the excessive consumption that our inner engine drives us to.
And since we evolved into a globally integrated and fully interdependent system and billions of people want to buy and acquire whatever they think they need, mostly at the expense of each other and Nature, we all live like cancer and we destroy the system and ourselves.
This is not something “evil or sinful”, we are born with this insatiable desire for pleasures for ourselves, and we had no free choice about it. But we also have a unique human intellect, with the ability of critical self-assessment. We can recognize that as long as we blindly follow our inherent nature and covet excessive consumption for ourselves through ruthless and exclusive competition, we will not survive since we go against Nature’s strict laws that govern the general balance and homeostasis life depends on.
We cannot change our inherent desire for pleasures, we cannot change the system through which we trade and obtain what we need. But we can learn to change how and for what goals and with what intentions we use our desires.
We can learn to exist similarly to Nature’s system, where each element fulfils and performs its unique, irreplaceable and crucially important role for the whole collective, while justly and proportionately receiving everything they need and deserve in order to sustain that contributing role for the whole.
This is how the cells and organs of our own biological body work in order to sustain health and life.
Thus the only thing we need to consciously and purposefully change is for whose sake we do anything, for whose sake we need resources and fulfilment? If we adopt a Natural lifestyle, where each and everyone gets whatever they need for a comfortable and modern life for physical survival and above that each and every person performs their most optimal, mutually responsible and mutually complementing role for the whole global collective, each being reimbursed precisely according to the role they have to fulfil and the condition they have to work from, then everything falls into place and everything starts to work.
Even money (or something similar) will perform its original, simple task of being a trading tool.
This is something extremely practical and we have a very precise blueprint all around us in Nature. We also have a unique, purposeful and practical educational method that can help us change our inherent existence and behaviour so we adapt ourselves to that most optimal human society according to Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated template.
We actually do not have a free choice in the matter either, since if we continue pursuing a human system that is against Nature’s laws, everything we have ever built will collapse and a chaotic, suffering and war-filled period will convince us about the need to change how we live.