Sublime

No longer will greed, scarcity, the quantification and commoditization of all things, the “time preference” for immediate consumption, the discounting of the future for the sake of the present, the fundamental opposition between financial interest and the common good, or the equation of security with accumulation be axiomatic.

This is the challenge we need to tackle today: revisiting every function that was once performed by the Great Safety Net back when it worked so well. We need to imagine institutions to once again serve the three goals that we should all be obsessed with: making consumer demand steadier, increasing household income, and providing access to affordabl

Tocqueville

busca incorporar à dimensão econômica outros aspectos da vida humana.

Negative interest on currency must accompany Georgist or Gesellian levies on land as well, and indeed on any other source of “economic rents.” The physical commons of land, the genome, the ecosystem, and the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as the cultural commons of ideas, inventions, music, and stories, must be subject to the same carry costs as

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for.