THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

that 23% failed to participate because of lack of transportation, 43%
due to a health condition, 18% due to lack of child care, and 20% due
to mental health issues.
This is happening while the US economy is in its longest boom in
history ...
Sustainable Abundance
My strongest motivation for researching and writing this book has
been my increasing belief that it is possible for us to create a Golden
Age of Sustainable Abundance within our lifetimes, This letter to my
best friend from high school days, now a Benedictine monk living at
Lake Titicaca in Southern Peru, explains why.
Letter to a friend
My deer friend Pierre,
I am in the process of writing my next book about a topic that you -
in your monk's retreat near your lake at the edge of the world - will
probably consider of little relevance. Nevertheless, of all the people I
know, you are one of the very few who live in the ultimate luxury - to
be able to dedicate your full time and energy to following your bliss,
your calling, to being who you want to be, without any concern over
money. It is ironic that only monks, who don't own anything, or
possibly the very rich, or the extraordinarily gifted, can afford your
equanimity about money. The rest of us, the vast majority of humans,
even in the richest countries in the world, have succumbed to the
obligation - or you might say the temptation? - of 'making a living'
that does not really coincide with what we really would like to be
doing or being.
How much have we had to give up of our being, of who we really
want to be, in this process of making a living? Many have not even