Charles Eisenstein

We have attached an exponentially growing money to a self and world that are neither exponential nor even linear, but cyclic.

It is no accident that the first highly monetized society, ancient Greece, was also the birthplace of the modern concept of the individual.

cooperation, abundance, and community?

It would be a money that, like bread, becomes less valuable over time. It would be money, in other words, that decays—money that is subject to a negative interest rate, also known as a demurrage charge.1

Instead of working less hard to meet existing needs more easily, we have constantly created new needs to meet