Concept

Post-monetary

A dream I wrote down in 2015: a world that works together for real, without money in the middle.

What it is

In 2015 I wrote to a friend that we should focus on two things, the human race and being happy, and that I hoped one day we could live in a world that was post-racial, post-monetary, post-segregation, post-homophobia, post-war.

By post-monetary I meant working together for real, not poetically: each country focusing on what it does best, and everything shared. “It’s not socialism, because socialism is controlled by a few.”

How it shows up for me

I’m keeping this one as a record of who I was at thirty, not as a plan. It’s naive, and I still like the kid who wrote it. The part I’d keep is the question: what would we build if money weren’t the point?

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