We need to first frame the problem honestly… maybe then we can start to map out some answers. Here’s my quick take on a problem statement;
Citizens of the world, we have been living in a deeply unsustainable construct for far too long - and we have reached a very dire state, though many cannot see it. That most cannot see it speaks in large part to the success the banking elite have had over generations in making their debt-based fiat currency seem worthy of your confidence. They want you to believe that their money systems are a fundamental force of nature, worthy of modeling with yet-to-mature quantum computers alongside applications like protein folding. Instead we have been living with ephemeral money, in a system that creates money as debt and that depends on constant expansion for its own mathematical sustainability. Many bad and unsustainable habits have been developed on the back of this money system. For many of us it has felt good as we developed and participated in this feast of plenty. Simply stated, having a money system that cut its final, tenuous ties to the earth's capacity to provide in 1971 when Nixon took the US off the Gold window (for international settlements) we have been in a wildly, and unsustainably (earth) extractive mode for 50 years, and the bill for this is coming due. We should have had this conversation as an outgrowth of the great financial crisis of 2008-2009, but we didn't. Instead the bankers doubled down, used their levers (QE) to create new money to keep the system in expansion mode, and kept you in the dark about most of the negative consequences of their actions by corralling the money into certain favored sectors of the economy (real estate, stock market, etc). Now a prime steak costs $28 per pound. As well, you have been fooled to think think that the currencies of various countries are truly independent - this is false. All Western-style central banks have been working together to keep the illusion alive - they are heads of the same hydra, and if one dies they all die. It doesn't matter that the US Fed cannot buy and hold stocks on their balance sheet, because the Swiss and Japanese central banks can (and do). We need drastic, pro-active, self-imposed change if we are to save ourselves. We need to take responsibility for our own participation in the culture of consuming that has resulted from this unprecedented rush of extraction, enabled by borrowing from the future. If we don't do it ourselves, the elite bankers and corporatist/leaders will do it for us in ways that we will ultimately not like at all. We can take their great reset medicine, shoved down our throats (and jabbed into our arms) or we can plot our own course in responding this crisis. The money system we have today is about to die. Historically the problem of debt buildup, a fundamental feature of debt-based fiat money, has been handled by a Jubilee - in other words a forgiving of debts to reset the system. Whose reset are we going to abide by? We know the price of things, but I will argue that we no longer know the value of anything. We need a new money system that takes its cues from the earth's ability to provide - one that abides by environmental economics. For instance, given our deep dependence on oil as the master resource, and the reality of its waning supply, it is dramatically undervalued in dollars, yen, or euros. If we properly revalue oil in our new earth-tied money system, then many more sustainable practices and behaviors will stem from it; re-localization of economies and food production as we realize that shipping all manner of goods around the globe has been part of an unsustainable, extractive past. We will be more highly incented to use the last decades of our (now) expensive oil to develop more sustainable forms of energy rather than burning them down to CO2 and water in SUV's. Consumer culture as we know it needs to die.. this has been the most visible marker of the last 50 years of extractive exuberance. I can't map out for you all the ways in which we need to change - but simply put, we all need to live on less. At the same time, if we provide in our new (reset) money system for a way to share the commons, and not allow every nook and cranny of the earth to be privately owned and monetized, we can easily solve many problems that seem intractable today as a result of the scarcity model imposed by banker money - hunger and homelessness. Said differently, in our new societal compact, some portion of the earth's bounty should be set aside as a form of universal, basic income. This is not "welfare" in the pejorative sense - it's just the value of access to that which the earth supplies, like water, things that we otherwise seek to monetize and "own" today. Many of us see the need to and desire to treat mother earth better. We have two choices; We can understand the real roots of the problem, accept our own complicity in the old scheme, and plot a new course, or we can allow our corporatist/banker masters to continue running the show, throwing Greta Thunberg at us along with the rest of their pandemic/great reset/build-back-better/you'll be happy and own NOTHING shit show. The choice is ours, and time is running out.