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Date Posted: 15:59:59 01/21/00 Fri
Author: SwimmingUpstream
Subject: Throttled Explorations

A “rocket scientist”, a plumber, and a farm hand have always been able to sit at the same table, breaking bread together, each content that he was a vital part of the community, each content that they had a Valued Place.

But can the “rocket scientist”, plumber, farm hand, and wax pourer at the WAX BUSTS OF ELVIS FACTORY each sit at that table content that he has found in his work a Valued Place?

The artificially induced “cost” produced by Money Systems has made it necessary for entrepreneurs with small amounts of capital to direct resources to enterprises with a “quick return” on investment, to easily produced, easily “marketed” products/services (that is, something for which a market can be easily created by bullying or advertising).

The Money Systems simultaneously create labor markets for these artificial jobs by making it a necessity that one Make Money in order to obtain material necessaries; material necessaries being distributed primarily by the means of the exchange of money in such systems.

The combined effect of the artificial cost produced by Money Systems is the throttling of “explorations” -- human endeavors to seek, to seek the preventative of Cancer, of AIDS, of the common cold; to seek energy sources that can be decentralized/disconnected from supply systems -- atomic power, photovoltaic, static electricity...; to seek the knowledge and ability to land a man on Mars and return him safely to earth; to turn sea water to potable water on a great scale; to produce that which we do not even imagine today.

Mutualism will make these explorations that require a great concentration of materials and human resources possible on a much wider scale than can ever be possible within Money/Exchange Systems. And in the bargain it will make possible the creation of Valued Places on a scale far greater than can ever be possible in a Money/Exchange System.

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