Although the effects of negative-interest currency, elimination of economic rents, localization, and a social dividend are indeed revolutionary, the means to achieve them are not. Indeed, they all exist in embryonic form already.

I do know, however, that by the end of our lifetimes, my generation will live in a world unimaginably more beautiful than the one we were born into. And it will be a world that is palpably improving year after year. We will reforest the Greek isles, denuded over two thousand years ago. We will restore the Sahara Desert to the rich grassland it once

abundance has always been available to us. It is our perceptions, and not our means, that engender scarcity.

The history of civilization, of growing separation and its imminent transcendence in a long age of growing reunion, is also a journey from an original abundance, to the extreme of scarcity, and then back toward abundance at a higher level of complexity. I have written herein about the abundance economy emerging via digital media, thanks to

Therefore, I foresee money eventually losing its homogeneity and gaining the capacity to bear with it its history. With electronic, transparent money, every transaction that a given dollar has ever been used for could be attached to it in an electronic database.

The social dividend, the internalization of costs, degrowth, abundance and the gift economy, all take us away from the mentality of struggle, of survival, and therefore of utilitarian efficiency, and toward our true state of gratitude: of reverence for what we have received and of desire to give equally, or better, from our endowment. We wish to

For what purpose have our forebears sacrificed, if not to create a beautiful world?

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. —John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. —John Kenneth Galbraith