***MUTUALISM***
AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
Every now and then an idea we've long
accepted as true or right or good or okay turns out to be false
or wrong or no good or not okay.
Sometimes we discover that the long
accepted idea was false or wrong or no good or not okay all along.
For a long time humankind accepted the idea that the earth was
the center of the universe. Then Nicolas Copernicus came along
and demonstrated to us that the long accepted idea was just plain
false and always had been.
Sometimes, too, we discover that an
idea which was okay for a while isn't okay any longer because
something has changed in the world. For a long time outhouses
were accepted as an okay idea. But in many places they aren't
an okay idea any longer.
The Money Idea is another idea that
we've accepted for a long time as okay, but like outhouses it
isn't okay any longer. This assertion may seem to you as outlandish
as Copernicus' assertion seemed to many of his contemporaries.
But no matter how outlandish it may seem, it is nonetheless true.
The essence of the Money Idea is the
assertion that it is legitimate in human affairs to demand
something in return/exchange for something we offer to another
-- that it is legitimate to charge for the use of land or for
the goods derived from the land, and for our labor.
There has always been lurking within
that assertion an exploitative element. However, so long as there
were in the world freely available resources "enough and
as good", as John Locke expressed it, the exploitative element
within the Money Idea did not necessarily produce unavoidable
injurious privation -- one could move to unclaimed land.
But there is no longer "enough
and as good' in the world freely accessible by all. This is one
of the changes in the conditions of human association that, combined
with other changes, makes it necessary to liberate ourselves from
the thrall of the Money Idea.
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