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The discussion of a computerized non-monetary economy is necessarily technical. The proposed system (#4) would be easier to use than most home banking terminals. Monetary terminology still applies - with minor redefinitions of those few terms that now imply the intrinsic value of money. Though abundant use of acronyms and technical jargon is made in #4, most readers will skim through it so as to understand the system's operation intuitively - just as most people use the internet without knowing what URL, LAN and .TXT mean.
People who organize themselves to tell each other economic truths, and to share profits or losses of joint effort honestly, form much more unified communities than those that were corroded by the injustices of intrinsic value money. Being juster, they are more peaceful. They do not need external dangers to distract their members from internal injustices. Being better organized than monetary economies, they can deal more effectively with infiltrators, spies, terrorists and money-managed mind manipulators.
When money is no longer used as though it had value, people regain mastery over their economic symbols. These then help them to form freer, fairer and more dynamic societies than is possible with pieces of inert metal or paper. Computerized immediate economies can outsmart and overcome others that are still monetary (#5.7). The masters of monetary economies need to maintain their monopolies to issue money and prevent others from doing what they do. In olden times, lords of lucre preserved their privileges by controlling other men's' access to women; nowadays they use energy monopolies. The old metal monetary system deeply wounded us in heart (#3.1.7); the new credit money system destroys nature as well (#3.6).
The Immediate Economy is taking over everywhere in spite the efforts of the old monetary powers' to stop it. The more people balance accounts, the less they need state or bank issued money. Multinational companies finance themselves and balance accounts directly between each other without paying taxes. They reinvest receipts immediately to avoid the effects of inflation. They use the names of national currencies, not of their value bearing functions. As the world becomes non-monetary, it would be in these companies' own immediate interests to establish a juster, more efficient order between themselves. It this increasingly computerized world, that order can only be the Immediate Economy.
Nation States are increasingly broke and incapable of raising taxes from multi-nationals and non-governmentals, or of imposing any kind of law on them. They are thus reduced to gouging the small, disorganized and weak within their frontiers - craftsmen, workers, peasants, small companies.. - who have no way of avoiding inflation or creating money themselves. Anti-monopoly laws oblige them to remain disorganized and at the mercy of the people who create money and laws more or less as they please. Additional taxes and public debts needed to control the frustrated poor impoverish and anger them further.
Monetary economies become unstable as gaps rich between and poor widen. The decline of civilization and destruction of nature will be ended by living in reality and discarding illusions based on the long gone intrinsic value of money. Modern science is now showing us that this reality is a great deal more magical than the mechanistic old world-view had us believe. We left the first non-monetary economy as creatures. We return to the new one as creators (#5).
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