Easy Answer vs. Intelligent Answer
Confronting the Real Problem about our Money
“If you write the problem down clearly, then the matter is half solved.” — Kidlin’s Law
Separation from each other through competition, exploitation, and individualism. Separation from nature through environmental destruction, disrespect, and arrogance. All of these things affect us everyday.
And what is the gasoline that adds the fuel to the fire?
Let’s just think for a minute….
Economic Class “Warfare”
The poor blame the rich and middle class.
“There is not enough money, so people with more should share their wealth!” they shout to the middle class. “How can they live with so much wealth and not feel guilty about what they are doing to us?” they protest to the rich.
The poor fight just to have food for themselves and their families, never realizing the solution is right in front of their eyes.
The middle class blame the rich and poor alike. “What do they think? That I’m made of money?” they say to the poor. “Why don’t the rich stop being so greedy and give me a raise at work?” they grumble about the rich.
The middle class struggles to keep the bank from repossessing their homes, always one paycheck away from financial destruction, never realizing the solution is right in front of their eyes.
The rich blame the middle class and the poor. “You just cannot find good employees anymore! And if I don’t keep working, I’ll have nothing left in just a few years; if you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backwards, you know!” they talk about the middle class. “If the poor really want to get ahead, they just need to work smarter, not harder. Stop being so lazy,” they complain about the poor.
The rich live their lives of constant, stressful work, always relentlessly driving themselves for… just… a… little… more, never realizing the solution is right in front of their eyes.
Depressions, Bankruptcies, and Derelict Buildings
Have you ever seen a half-completed office building that has been standing unfinished for 5 or 10 years? Just a skeleton of steel and concrete, rusting away with no walls or windows. Why wasn’t the building completed? Why would so many resources of time, labor, and materials be spent on something that never reached fruition?
How about an excavator with an empty fuel tank beside a lot that needs to be cleared, hydraulic fluid slowly seeping out of the arm of the big machine and into the ground below?
Or maybe an unemployed machine operator sitting at home, hoping the phone would ring about that job for which he applied two weeks ago. He wants to work! He wants to help his family! But instead…
The bank is calling. His family is hurting. His self-worth is declining… with every day that passes.
What is the Problem… Really?
On the surface, it would appear that a lack of something is the issue. But that does not explore, nor answer, the real concern.
It’s true that there is not enough money to buy the windows and doors and interior of the office building in order to complete it. It’s true that there is not enough money to buy fuel for the excavator. It’s true that there is no salary available anywhere for the machine operator.
But is there a shortage of windows and doors, lights and desks? No.
Is there no fuel in the underground reservoirs at the station down the street? No.
Is the man lazy or unqualified or unwilling to operate the machinery that could be used for a great project? No.
Everything already exists in abundance for all the time, labor, and materials to do all of this work.
But those resources are sitting idle because of one reason.
…And it is not what you think.
Is The Problem a Lack of Money?
That is the most common response. And the easy out.
But look deeper.
Think deeper.
The problem is not a lack of money.
The problem is money itself.
All of the problems listed above are waiting around for something that doesn’t even matter.
It doesn’t take money to do any of it. Everything necessary is readily available.
Money is a completely unnecessary complication to an otherwise robust system. It is another step that we have inserted that only adds complexity to, what could be, a very simple process.
So…
… I ask you…
… and I challenge you…
…What is the logical solution?
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” — Lao Tzu
“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
— James Allen
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