I'd somewhat understand the idea of attempting to return to modern-normal after the pandemic, if money, debt, profit, interest, cash, credit etc were representative of anything even remotely tangible but that hasn't been true for well over a century now. Nine out of ten citizens of this country can't properly explain the effect that national debt has on the common man, much less those in other sociolo-economic classes (castes) but that doesn't stop people from using it as a talking point, as they've been indoctrinated to.

The incentive to create and explore would be no different in a goods for services exchange because the best and the brightest innovators as well as the most skilled and hardest working laborers, would be able to exchange their creations for greater returns, the exchange would just be rooted in reality and contribution, not fantasy and exploitation. If you don't contribute fairly to acquire something, you simply don't acquire it but some baseline tenants must be in place WRT the human organism.

This begins with outlawing the hoarding of "wealth" (to me an equivalent of being a multi billionaire is as decent a delineation point as any) and the need for more rational health options. The time for looking past the technologically antiquated labels of Capitalism/Socialism has come. It is time for creative model in action.

If the pandemic has taught us one thing it's that healthcare is no longer in the topical realm of right vs privelage. It's officially necessity for ALL, since one virus can affect everyone, no matter how wealthy and or famous, if we ignore the least amongst us.

I realize the necessity of services being represented by money because some things (teaching for example) can't be fairly quantified in say, loaves of bread but it isn't as if we currently do a remotely good job of compensating them. More often than not, the higher up the food chain you get, by hook or by crook in this country, the less work you have to do.

In situations such as services rendered, the money at LEAST has to be representative of something tangible and sustainable. The gold standard was ALWAYS a bad idea.

Of course I know why none of this will happen. Most of us are so obsessed with a no-longer-tenable ideal of "freedom", so much so that we've ironically become enslaved in most practical applications of the term, by the very mechanisms of which we attempt to attain it. The more a person craves freedom, the less likely they are to ever enjoy any effectual amount of it. Working long hours, sleeping briefly and worrying about both when you aren't doing them, is hardly my idea of freedom.

They say the things you own eventually start to own you but it's even more nefarious than that. It's often the outdated ideas you cling desperately to, which infect and devour you from the inside out.

I bet Bernie/Warren are seeming pretty tame in comparison to the revolution currently taking place, whether we like it or not. It's time to start thinking about revolutionary post-war outcomes that are mindful of the idea that we ARE one organism. Connectivity is ALL that will save it after the horrors we've caused ourselves and the planet, which is quite CLEARLY rejecting it's parasitic passenger at present.