we don’t think of people as contributors to anything but money now. “Consumers All" was the title of the 1957 USDA yearbook on agriculture.

Until we reverse our concepts of human activities (the actual economy, not the stock market fantasy one), humans will find new ways to be competitive dumbass consumers for money’s desires, rather than cooperative contributors to our own ecosystem and the future of our grandchildren.

UBI and healthcare based on sales tax. It’s the missing control system in capitalism’s ”one dollar, one vote" Invisible Hand Job.

The problem that is killing us is that the unfettered dollars only vote for the other dollars.