We use clocks and calendars to organize all our personal and social relationships and they do a very good job. We are not always on time for our appointments, but we know when we are early and when we are late.
The same cannot be said about money. We need money for most of the things we need to live, but we can never be sure how much our money is worth. To make matters much more complicated, there are over 100 national currencies being used in the world today and none of them, zero, state on the money itself what the money is worth. The name of the money tells us its nationality but not its value.
By denominating money in Hours of work and by trading an hour of my time for an hour of your time world wide, we can trade fair to everyone's benefit. That is how we can get to world peace.
Peace is easier than war, although it does not seem to be. People who start wars usually think they will be short - just hit the enemy with massive shock and awe bombing and they will give up. It does not happen that way because victims have relatives. Those relatives fight on.
ReplyDeleteWhy did we drop massive amounts of bombs on Iraq? Because our manufacturers had produced massive amounts of bombs that were sitting in warehouses waiting to be used. When we prepare for war, guess what, we get war.
If we want peace, we must prepare for peace. Everything we do every day must add to peace, such things as food, housing, and education, if we want peace.