Money.
A thought that comes daily, to most.
An eternal presence that accompanies you through any major decisions you make in life. Even before you gained consciousness, it was money that gave your parents the final “yes” or “no” to do what is in your best interest.
A society without money is, to us in the twenty-first century, unimaginable.
That might soon be over.
First, let’s take a step back and take a brief look at how it all started.
An Inevitable Creation
Ever since the earliest forms of society emerged, humans have taken on to the concept of exchanging one favour for…
Ever since the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” came out in 2006, the wider public has more or less become aware of climate change, and the threat it poses to humankind and life on earth in general.
Strangely though, as by some type of cognitive dissonance, we collectively haven’t really done much about it in our day to day lives. Most of us are guilty of that, myself included. For most of the decade that followed the release of the movie, world leaders seemed to take a position that boiled down to “I’m just doing what’s best for my country”.
And…
Jonathan B.
Economics student at the V.U.B.
