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Bernard Lietaer on Money

1942–2019 Belgium

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Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.

The Future of Money (2001)

In essence, money is a lifeblood flowing through ourselves, our society, our global human community, and should be acknowledged and treated consciously.

Money is like an iron ring we've put through our noses. We've forgotten that we designed it, and it's now leading us around. I think it's time to figure out where we want to go--in my opinion toward sustainability and community--and then design a money system that gets us there.

While economic textbooks claim that people and corporations are competing for markets and resources... in reality they are competing for money - using markets and resources to do so. So designing new money systems really amounts to redesigning the target that orients much human effort.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard Lietaer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.