What did we do before we had money?

blankets-on-display, originally uploaded by artist_charleentouchette.

You can get depressed listening to the news.
The economy sucks. Everybody, except the Bank CEO's, is losing money.
The Feds are borrowing and printing trillions of dollars.
The value of the dollar is plummeting.

What if, instead of getting depressed, we question the very basis of the economy and take back control of our lives and futures?

Why is GNP - Gross National Product - the measure of U.S. economic and societal health?
What if, we follow the practice of forward thinking nations and measure our national well-being by assessing our GHQ - Gross Happiness Quotiant?

So the western capitalist economic system collapses, it is an artificial construct anyway, designed to create and perpetuate inequality and exploitation.

Money is an artificial construct too. It isn't worth anything except what people agree it is worth.


What did we do before we had money?

We bartered. We traded. We shared.

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Photo - Pendleton Blankets on display at supermarket in Navajo Nation.
Charleen Touchette 2008