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

· How does he or she plan to provide the money to the growing
population of elderly so that it would match their longevity, without
either raising taxes unduly or bankrupting the governmental
budgets?
· How does (s)he plan to deal realistically with the issue of jobless
growth, particularly as we should expect another doubling of the
human population over the next 50 years, and a continuation of the
technological trend that makes human input in the production
processes less and less relevant'
· How does (s)he plan to deal effectively with the conflict between
financial priorities which determine decisions in the real world, and
long-term ecological sustainability?
· How does (s)he propose to deal with global monetary instability?
If these four questions are valid, they deserve a response (my own
responses to the last two of these questions are still to be fully
developed in the next two chapters). I sincerely hope that as a result
of such responses a better solution than the one proposed here will
emerge ...
Until that is the case, we should proceed on the basis of the limited
knowledge accumulated so far about what has been demonstrated to
work pragmatically somewhere in the world. I am the first to
acknowledge that these solutions are still primitive prototypes to
return to the early 'flying machines' metaphor of Chapter 6 - but they
have shown themselves to be capable of dying. And they do so by
empowering grass-root organisations to solve problems, which
centralised government solutions, have patently failed to address
effectively.
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