[Pil-pc-oceania] A letter from the future by Richard Heinberg

[Robyn Williamson]

A LETTER FROM THE FUTURE
by Richard Heinberg

.......The economists could think only in terms of money; basic  
necessities like water and energy only showed up in their  
calculations in terms of dollar cost, which made them functionally  
interchangeable with everything else that was priceable - oranges,  
airliners, diamonds, baseball cards, whatever. But, in the last  
analysis, basic resources weren't interchangeable with other economic  
goods at all: you couldn't drink baseball cards, no matter how big or  
valuable your collection, once the water ran out. Nor could you eat  
dollars, if nobody had food to sell. And so, after a certain point,  
people started to lose faith in their money. And as they did so, they  
realized that faith had been the only thing that made money worth  
anything in the first place.....

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