It all depends on the money we use ...

[Guest guest]

Erica,

 

What would happen would depend largely upon the nature of the " money " we all

choose to use.

 

Elchanan

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Erica,

 

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It's excellent.

 

On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Erica wrote:

 

> MAKES ME WONDER HOW THIS WORLD WOULD BE IF EVERYBODY WAS ALKALINE,

> NOBODY HAD PAIN, EVERYBODY HAD ENERGY AND WASN'T TIRED AND FELT

> PEACEFUL AND WELL-RESTED AND BALANCED....

>

> Erica

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

rawfood , " Elchanan " <Elchanan wrote:

>

> Erica,

>

> What would happen would depend largely upon the nature of the " money "

we all

> choose to use.

 

 

Really? How so? I'm not sure how that would be the largest influence on

society if everybody was alkaline, healthy, well-rested, etc. I think

it would matter more on what our values are. Money is nothing, really.

We put the value on it. We decide that strippers should be paid 10x

what teachers do. We get what we pay for.... Erica

[Guest guest]

Hi Erica,

 

Just wanted to chime in here and say that, based on things I've seen

Elchanan say before, I believe here he meant that right now the money

we use hardly serves us (in fact keeps us " down " in several senses),

and that in a better world, the " money " we use would be something more

useful to all people, not necessarily (and hopefully not) money as we

know it today. As in, things would have certain inherent values, all

costs, inputs, and outputs considered, and so perhaps fresh, ripe,

organic (or better) fruit would have a higher value than a green piece

of rectangular paper with a dead president on it.

 

As a rambling elaboration, I can see two ways (I'm sure there are

more) to the world you describe where people are healthy, " alkaline, "

pain-free, balanced, etc. One is if the people themselves create it,

which necessarily means they put a value on it and thus also probably

value related things like health for the environment, social health

(liberty as well as service to others), and the like. In this world, I

think " money " would be like the example above, where a piece of fruit

or land could be seen as more valuable than paper. The other way I can

imagine this happening is as in some Brave New World scenario where

the government steps in and mandates that people eat and live a

certain way, and we may all be healthy and youthful, but only because

maybe the costs of creating a new human (including the years it takes

to grow to become a workable age) are more than the costs of

maintaining a present worker. In such a case, though, I imagine

whatever money is used would not be something valuable to the

well-being of a human, but probably something more contrived like, um

.... BTUs of electricity of something

 

Tra la!

Jen

 

rawfood , " Erica " <schoolofrawk wrote:

>

> rawfood , " Elchanan " <Elchanan@> wrote:

> >

> > Erica,

> >

> > What would happen would depend largely upon the nature of the " money "

> we all

> > choose to use.

>

>

> Really? How so? I'm not sure how that would be the largest influence on

> society if everybody was alkaline, healthy, well-rested, etc. I think

> it would matter more on what our values are. Money is nothing, really.

> We put the value on it. We decide that strippers should be paid 10x

> what teachers do. We get what we pay for.... Erica

>