Effective March 31, 2016, Money is Abolished

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — The wealthiest 62 people now own as much as half the world’s population, some 3.5 billion people…

- “What??? What’s that supposed to mean, money is abolished?”

- “Well, it says — 3.5 billion minus 62 people have decided they don’t want to have it anymore what they already don’t have.

They say, they don’t want to have what they trade their bodies, minds and souls for, but never have.

They say it’s ten thousand years they have been breaking their backs in fields — to feed whom?

It’s ten thousand years they have been bloodying themselves in wars — to save whom?

— 62 people?

Ten thousand years of squeezing the earth and scouring the ocean; eliminating every other form of life from the planet.

Ten thousand years of killing and raping. For whom?

And they say, there is still hunger and blood everywhere. There has to be something seriously wrong, they state.”

- “Ok, ok, ok but what does that even mean, money is abolished?”

- “It means, it is a piece of paper, finally.”

- “You mean if I go out to buy something with money, I will not be able to?”

- “Yes, it’s an equal world now.”

- “You mean I cannot buy ANYTHING with it?”

- “No nothing, zilch, null…”

- “Not even gas for my car. I just bought a new one, the dream of my life.”

- “Nope. You won’t need it in any case.”

- “Why?”

- “You don’t have a job… There is nothing to be paid with. On the plus side, you don’t have to pay mortgage either. All your credit card debt stands waived too. Smile, please.”

- “But how am I going to eat?”

- “I don’t know.”

- “You mean I cannot go to market and buy food?”

- “No, you cannot.”

- “No food, no job, no car… what am I going to do?”

- “I don’t know.

But you saw this coming, right? You knew this had to happen one day, didn’t you?”

- “Are you crazy? How could have anyone thought about something like this?”

- “Well, then my mistake. I thought you must have known about this. You have been living on this planet since long, right?”

- “Obviously, all my life… I am from this planet. Don’t you joke with me at this hour.”

- “But you have been saying all along that money doesn’t grow on trees. You knew it cannot be grown, it cannot be recycled. It’s the end of the line product.”

- “I am afraid, I don’t understand.”

- “Of course you are afraid, and you don’t understand. Well, I mean you knew that it was a one way process, you were converting the earth into currency, right?

And you cannot convert the currency back to earth.

There was no exchange. You were not returning anything back to earth, just taking away whatever you felt like.

And it had to end one day.”

- “But there is God, He will take care of everything.”

- “Yes sure, He will. God gave you this earth to have a party with. And He is going to gift you another when you are done with this one. You are the chosen one, after all!”

- “Ok, you sound like an atheist. Then you must be believing in science. Look science has a solution for everything, I mean everything.”

- “Science sure has a solution for every problem it creates. And ten problems for every solution it provides. Besides, it has nicely arranged this party for you, and will surely arrange another one when you get a new globe.”

- “Ok, technology? Technology will save us. We have such advanced technologies, don’t we?”

- “Yes sure, we do have — to speed up the conversion — not to return anything back to earth. Name the technology that does that.”

- “Economists will do something. They have big brains, you know!”

- “Jugglers can only play with the balls they have in their hands.”

- “Don’t be a pessimist. We have reached the Moon and the Mars, we’ll rob other planets.”

- “Well, that sure is a possibility.

But it’s time for your lunch, by the way. You need to have your next meal, right?”

Thank God, it was just a dream! Thank science we are safe! Thank economics we came out of it unscathed!