We are All Poor

The moment money fails us, most of us will be destitute.

If you woke up tomorrow and the monetary system had collapsed overnight, what would you really have access to?  You might have a refrigerator, but without money you will be unable to fill it.  You might have a car, but no way to fuel it.  You might have central heating and air, but no means of powering it.  Even if you "own" your home, what good will it do you without food, heat, electricity, running water, etc.?  How long before you are reduced to the fearful life of a nomadic hunter/gatherer roaming the countryside on foot?  How long before we are living in foul tent cities like those being erected all across America even now: " ... Tent cities have sprung up in and around at least 55 American cities - they represent the bleak reality of America's poverty crisis.”  For more information, read: U.S. 'TentCities,' Sharp Increase in Homelessness Ignored by Almost Everyone Except theBBC

Human beings have placed their survival in the hands of a highly unstable for profit monetary system, a system that regards "boom and bust" cycles to be the norm... even beneficial in terms of generating and manipulating the illusion of wealth. 

Why have we so blindly surrendered our evolutionary potential--our very survival--to the whim of a monetary system that regards human suffering as positive so long as it generates Gross Domestic Product?

Goods and resources are wealth.  All the money in the world is so much worthless paper if it cannot buy you the goods and services you require to survive and prosper. 

Should we not transition to a system that guarantees every human being access to the goods and services required for life?  Are we so ignorant as to believe that those of us “benefiting” from our current system of exploitation and false scarcity will be immune to the economic "bust" cycle that brings about the next great depression? 

In our current culture, we are all poor.  Whatever tenuous access to goods and services money provides us, it is one economic disaster away from vanishing.  Without money, the vast majority of us would have next to zero access to the necessities of life because we are wholly reliant on the current for profit infrastructure to deliver them to us.  Why have we agreed to a system that makes us completely vulnerable to an unpredictable, uncontrollable force of our own invention: Money?

In our culture, wealth is an illusion and poverty is only a day away.