Acing life requieres that you try to answer seemingly unanswerable questions

[Mesopotamian]

You might think that you don't need to know much, especially when things are going well with your life, but then something suddenly happens, something might be far away from you like a virus in another continent, and when it reaches  you,  you lose your job, and your country's economy enters into a completely different state, but  they inject money into the market and you have hope that things will go back again one day, when the virus ends.

Truth is that whatever state your country's economy in, it took probably ten years to to get there or more, it took sometimes decades or century for something to develop, and even if that thing has passed, in this case a vaccine will be distributed, then it is an utter delusion that we will be ending up in a state of being that is familiar for us.

You think that this will not impact  you, but if think about the infinite dynamics that changes the society, example when you used to manufacture something, but people stopped using it due to pandemic, not only that, but they discovered another alternative that works better for them. In this case, your expertise is not needed anymore over a night.

I came to believe that a person needs more knowledge about life, not only that, but also be able to communicate well with the rest of the people, cuz ultimately, you need to not only care for your survival, but sometimes your survival depends on the survival of your species, so you need better communication skills in order to communicate your findings with them.

I think this money-based economy gives us (or not) a window in time in order to develop the above, cuz it is not as solid as I think it is. We need to replace it one day after we do the necessary work to elevate our consciousness. Economy and money cannot drive us all to safety, and if more of us are ignorant, there's a point where it will fail and collapse.

[aurum]

3 hours ago, Mesopotamian said:

this money-based economy gives us (or not) a window in time in order to develop the above, cuz it is not as solid as I think it is. We need to replace it one day after we do the necessary work to elevate our consciousness. Economy and money cannot drive us all to safety, and if more of us are ignorant, there's a point where it will fail and collapse.

Money is the main tool that has allowed society to grow to the level that it has, for better or for worse.

Prior to money, exchanges would typically only occur between people who had a deep level of relationship. But as a universal value, money allows for transactional, anonymous exchanges between people who have no relationship.

This is what allows something like a large city to exist, where many people don't know each other. As long as you have money, you can get what you need from a complete stranger.

One of the downsides of this is that people now lack strong relationships. As the realm of money grows, more and more aspects of human experience that were previously based on relationship become transactional.

My sense is that we're heading for an integration. It's highly unlikely that we will be getting rid of money anytime soon as a tool, but it is going to decrease in importance. More and more human experience will be moved back into the realm of mutual aid / gift.

This is what is necessary for a Stage Green society to emerge based on community and relationship.