Money
is a convenient medium for the exchange of goods and services. It is a
convenient tool for exchanging ones income from work, no matter how it comes,
it is ultimately from some kind of work no matter who did the work, a
convenient tool for getting food, shelter, and clothing. Most human beings use money
as a medium to get and maintain a source of food, shelter, and clothing. Money for
most is a fundamental tool for paying for food, shelter and clothing.
Money
is a great convenience but not necessary for getting food, shelter and
clothing. Money answers a how question. How are we going to trade and make it
is easier for payment for food, shelter and clothing and that is the what
question? How do we get the what question, food, shelter, and clothing, and an
answer is money. People where getting food, shelter and clothing before money
came around.
Money
like all other tools saves time, once one thinks of time one can think of
energy being saved. As money saves time and therefore energy in exchange, it
means there is more time/ energy for other relationships. All relationships
take energy to maintain, it would be correct to say they take time to maintain.
A tool
is most useful when it does the job it was designed for. Money was designed as
a tool to simplify the exchange of skills, a tool to simplify the exchange
knowledge. Knowledge is our primary resource, what ever way we make our living
we are always using knowledge, we know what sells, what can be bought, what
skills are needed and we charge or pay accordingly. Knowledge being our primary
resource for survival, can only mean money is a tool for the exchange of this
primary resource.
Every
resource we have is because our minds identified it as a resource, the coal,
the computer, draft animals, slaves, oil, the mind must first identify it as a
resource, that takes knowledge. When talking about relationships in society it
usually boils down to who is allowed to use their knowledge and who is not. One
must first be allowed or be willing to get that knowledge to get that skill.
Answering
the question of who is allowed to use their skills, their knowledge, and to get
that question shows the cultural structures of a society, it says who can make
a living using their potential at that moment affecting them and their future. This
question will be delved more appropriately further on.
As
money is a tool that was developed for people to exchange skills and know how,
the best money is money that keeps its value, all other determinants of good
money are secondary to this principle. If it is nicely divisible, a process
that will flow from the money keeping its value, then you can for example
divide it as much as society desires, as long as it keeps its value.
If
nothing else changes in the society except for prices, it means the problem is
with the money and if not rectified will cause great damages in the future. If
conditions in society remain the same, one would rather spend the money they
would normally use at the butcher, not more, the desire for the meat did not
dramatically increase.
Money
constantly losing its value is corrupt money, there is nothing backing it. It
can’t facilitate the exchange of skills and knowledge.
A sledgehammer
with a loose hammer is as much a danger to the user as it is to the pike that
it is meant to drive down. Corrupted money is money that has broken principles and
is a danger to the user as well as attempting to do what it was meant to do. Money
was meant to facilitate the exchange of skills and knowledge, that is all what
goods and services represent. Money is a very special gift in its purest sense,
that is all it is truly meant to do as a tool.
Money
is meant to make relationships those who want and those who have to give at a
price be as smooth as possible. This means that the money will represent a true
value of what is offered from day to day. That the value of the money is static
and what changes values are the goods and services. Only then is money truly
playing a large part of its role.
That is
the best money, the money that keeps its value. That adds comfort to exchange
of skills and knowledge. Knowing that money keeps its value means tomorrow if
the bread prices rise or fall, the factors only have to do with supply and
demand of bread and perhaps wheat. Money itself keeping its value sends the
cleanest signals of what is happening. If the price of bread rises or falls,
what must we prepare for in real economic terms, because we know the signals
are telling us clearly with no need for fancy calculations for the real price.
With money that keeps its value it is always the real price.
When
money keeps its value, it is easy for all members of society to know that there
are issues outside somebody messing with the money that bread prices have risen
or fallen. Keeping its value all other uses of money are fulfilled. All the
other good characteristics of money mean nothing if money does not keep its
value.
What is
it we need money for? We need money for our basic needs that follow every human
being all their lifes. These needs where there before money. Money just enhanced
the way society exchanges skills and knowledge and getting food, shelter and
clothing as things become more and more complex allowing for greater
specialization in that complexity.
The
best money keeps its value. This best system is a system that has the money
supply grow with economic activity such that money keeps its value. In a
culture with best money the money is a barometer of economic activity as well
as the barometer of prices, real reasons why prices are changing because it will
be unlikely the money, ranges, these are not perfect things. If not, the money
great confidence can be placed with other reasons for changes in prices.
In the
sense of the early twenty first century most human beings have a relationship
with money in that money determines one’s food, shelter and clothing and
quantity and the quality of that food, shelter, and clothing. Determining
quality and quantity of food, shelter, and clothing signifies status. In todays
world it means how much money they have. This itself can never be a problem,
the reason being that money signifies a claim to other peoples efforts, you
cannot put any morality to that, what if everyone gave them their money
willingly, that is all that money signifies a claim to other peoples efforts. Once
you pay for that good or service, the effort turns to work.
A
culture of money that keeps its value is a good culture but that alone does not
explain the relationships in society. That merely explains that people have a
relationship where signals sent by money are more easily understood because it
can only be real things. If the bread prices rise it can not be the money being
corrupt, real factors like drought, burnt warehouses are at play. Same as when
bread prices fall, it is about real things, bumper harvests, new supplies of
wheat, new bakeries, real things.
This
culture of money keeping its value is great for calculations, less calculations,
simplified society dealing with those calculations, but there are other
relationships that must be considered when dealing with money, and the other
relationships are just as important. Before we even ask how one got that money,
there is a more fundamental question to ask.
What
must be considered is what is money for? Money is a medium to make it easier
for human beings to exchange their skills and knowledge. There is no other
reason for money, the rest is about good or bad money. Even if a culture has money
that keeps its value, that is great, but who does that culture allow to put
their skills and knowledge on the market? This question too answers the
morality of a society. This question is important because money does not only
determine having food, shelter and clothing, but quality of that food, shelter
and clothing. Not only quality of food, shelter, and clothing for themselves,
but for their offspring and relations that are with them.
Once
culturally, be that culture be enforced by laws and action, or just action, it
is still the culture of the land even if it is not in the laws. Once that
culture is there, of denying others to use their skills and knowledge, you can
never say the one with the most money earned it fairly, because the reason of
why money is the exchange of skills and knowledge has not being fulfilled by
those left out from sharing their skills and knowledge. There have been many
cultural excuses for denying other from using their skills and knowledge to get
better food, shelter, and clothing for themselves and offspring. That human
with the most money might very well not be the one with the most money if
others where culturally allowed to participate. It is like demanding others do
be disarmed then declaring mythical superiority.
All
sorts of excuses to make sure others do not participate in the market, as it
has to do with skills and knowledge, the most brutal route is to make sure some
do not get those skills and knowledge. Even when they get those skills and
knowledge try and put doubt into their skills and knowledge that’s culture, it
has been around for a long time, any reduction in others competing with your
skills and knowledge for food, shelter and clothing, it’s all about food
shelter and clothing. Denying others has always been the beginnings of trauma,
they are humans too no matter how one tries to deny their humanity, there will
usually be a lot of hypocrisy around keeping others from using or gaining
skills and knowledge.
By
being used for the exchange of skills and knowledge, the best use of money is
to exchange for the best skills and knowledge, because that is what money was
meant for, to make it easier to get utility given the knowledge available in
that society. Utility, ranking, it is basically the same thing, what you
prefer. You will get nothing more in the market than skills and knowledge. It
took somebody to pluck that apple from the tree and have the know that people
will likely buy it at the market. Why an apple, why not some poisonous fruit? Whose
fruit tastes the sweetest, whose blade cuts the finest, that is the market,
skills and knowledge being exchanged, it will never be anything more.
When
one talks of controlling the market, they essentially are saying for the good
of society only such people can share their skills and knowledge in such and
such a category of knowledge and thus have access to the food, shelter and
clothing that comes with that category of knowledge and skills. That is all
that social engineering is, allocating food, shelter, and clothing not by deeds
but by decree. Immediately causing trauma for those capable but left out of the
social engineering programs.
The
culture around money is a good indicator of who is being traumatized in all the
segments of society, micro and macro. Who is allowed to share their knowledge
and skills, who is allowed to improve themselves? Improving oneself is adding
skills and knowledge and taking them to market. Having the skills and knowledge
and not being allowed to participate in the market is like having a wheel
barrow of blueberries and whilst taking them to market culture stops you and
says hand over everything in the wheelbarrow to the one who is culturally
designated to have those blueberries. If that is not causing trauma what is? That’s
quality of food, shelter and clothing for themselves and household, taken just
like that because of cultural designation. This is all around money.
Therefore,
money itself was never meant to create trauma it is how humans wanted an easy
way to claim other peoples efforts, by using culture as a veil around what they
are doing. They used religion, anointing
themselves as the blessed from things unknown, and the rings of people around
them getting some of that blessing, the first to eat, have shelter and
comfortable clothing. Note, it is the religion not the money. The religion has
decreed these ones special, first to the food, the shelter and the clothing. It
is religion that has come in the way of money fulfilling its function.
Don’t
forget that money is more complicated than just a tool for exchange, it is a
tool to exchange skills and knowledge. Skills and knowledge are what are used
to get food, shelter, and clothing. Knowing that skills and knowledge bring
food, shelter, and clothing, who has the right and is encouraged to use their
skills and knowledge, that determines the core culture of that society, the
rest are psychological tools to determine who gets the quality and quantity of
food, shelter, and culture, convince the other humans they are less, train them
that is not worth trying, the consequences are heavy. There is no other way to
stop them except by force, or other foul means.
However
it is done, rest assured there is trauma being caused. Those stopped from
getting skills and knowledge are traumatized, they know they can have better
but the system says they must accept what is not wanted by those above. They
know culturally there is a limit to how much they can earn, what type of food
shelter and clothing is available to them, that is their designation. But they
will always know they are human and what another human can do they can do.
Those who
are denied the use of their skills and knowledge know they are being denied a
better existence, and are in fact being punished for having skills and
knowledge by not being allowed to use them. Punishment is teaching by trauma. They
know they are not allowed to use their skills and knowledge because they must
not be seen to be better than those that the culture says are the most fit for
using those types of skills and knowledge and access to that type of food, shelter,
and clothing that goes with those skills and knowledge, the contribution those
skills and knowledge give to society.
This is
worse than denying access to knowledge, this is saying you can’t even use your
skills and knowledge, the space is reserved legally or culturally, even if it
is not in law books if it is practised it might as well be in law books. Maybe
worse is the wrong word to use, because to deny one from gaining access to
knowledge and skills, they know they can get those skills and knowledge if they
had access, though seeming more traumatic having the skills and knowledge after
jumping all the hurdles that say you shouldn’t have all those skills and
knowledge, but the end result is the same for society, within that culture you
can’t use the skills or knowledge in certain fields, it is reserved. The
culture is saying it is a waste of time to even bother getting those skills and
knowledge.
One
cannot blame money for this situation but a culture. Money is a tool designed to
exchange skills and knowledge, it does not say who should or shouldn’t exchange
their skills and knowledge, for money even those culturally reserved spots,
like who can be seen to be a scientist who discovers, a judge, a general, an
economist, an entertainer, are meaningless, because money was created to help
everyone exchange their skills and knowledge, for everybody to be able to find
the best food, shelter, and clothing given their skills and knowledge.
It is
not money that said do a genetic test to see who is fit for what, money just
says exchange skills and knowledge, the rest is stuff added on for people to
give themselves an advantage. To then blame money, not the human, the human
knows they are abusing others to better guarantee themselves food, shelter and
clothing.
The
god’s instruct who has what role to play in society, who should get first food,
shelter, and clothing, who get’s money for what role. Often it encourages the
causing of trauma on others to take their stuff. To then blame money for this
abuse not the gods is absurd. Blame racism, sexism, social ideologies, social
culture, but don’t blame money, blame the humans. You can’t blame money when a
Professor steal from what culture has called third grade journals, it’s a lie
for food, shelter and clothing, this professor steal stuff from third grade
journals for the lower, takes stolen material to first grade journals claims it
as his own. That is why the con of some journals having better knowledge is
just that, a con, a cultural con. Money is a tool for the ease of exchange of
skills and knowledge that we see eventually see as goods and services.
To stop
others from using their skills and knowledge undermines the role of money.
Money is a tool for all not some. Abusing money, one is abusing the medium of
money when they say others can not use their skills and knowledge, forcing
money their way by causing trauma upon others. Robbing others of what their
potential deserves given the knowledge floating around at a particular time and
location. Money’s full potential on earth when a fact for a fact is accepted
from anywhere, a good a service is there, what are the facts about this good
and service, are they better or worse than others, then you price accordingly. Everything
is in a relationship, that is a fact, our relationships around money determine
who is rewarded for what and who can participate in using their talents to get food,
shelter and clothing, this affects their offspring too.
The
abundance of money is when it is a free medium for all to use their skills and
knowledge, for those who desire to seek out those skills and that knowledge and
survive and contribute to the best they can. All contributions no matter how
small affect tomorrow no matter how small.
Bhekuzulu
Khumalo
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