Money, Community and Social Change

“We’re treating money as if it is God-given, like rain or the number of planets in the solar system. But it isn’t. If you don’t like the quality of rain, there’s not much you can do about it. If you don’t like your money system, maybe you can do something about it.”

Fascinating article by Bernard Lietaer, one of the architects of the Euro convergence system, about the emergence of parallel currencies, and how they can solve many of society’s problems. Read it. Via Oblomovka.