Nonsensical Economy & Champion Greenbacks

by Jesse Wolf Hardin

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I never gave much thought to money in my life, and usually vilified it in my mind when I did. To this day, we live entirely on sporadic donations and a very few article sales, have no savings and prefer barter. That said, money has never seemed plentiful enough to waste. Yet looking at how our economy functions and what incentives our government offers, you’d think money was to burn.

Frankly, there’s something wrong with an economic system that depends on a constant increase in production, spending and debt just to avoid complete collapse. Here’s how it works, just is case you didn’t fully understand: The economy suffers even if we spend and produce the same, exactly the same amount as the year before