Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Money, The New Commons (Revised)
Money, The New Commons (Revised)
We, the people, have the power and the opportunity to create a
world where everybody can win. Or at least, anyone who wants to.
Clearly, not everyone is interested in playing fair and will
take advantage for personal gain alone, wherever possible. There
will always be those who think they know best for everyone else
and seek to dominate the system they were born to share. Those
are not the people I am interested in co-creating with, although
assuredly, they will need to be addressed and dealt with when
they slither their way into the new garden of Eden that the rest
of us are wanting to co-create. But we can address that directly
and collectively when we get there. To embrace despair and give
up on the dream before we start because, someone is always
going try to fuck it up is to agree that walking down this
This isnt welfare- at least not the way our society attends
to it with all the accompanying shame, paperwork and catch 22
regulations. It is, instead, human-care: creating a source of
monetary support that allows everyones basic needs to be
covered. After all, it is our money and we can decide how we
want to use it. We dont need to keep it trapped in our current
system of hoarding vs. scarcity.
-Kat Udarro