"Money is to the social fabric as water is to land-scape. Is is the agent of transport, the shaper and mover of trade. Like water, it is not the total amount of money entering a community which counts; it is the number of uses or duties to which we can divert money, and the number of cycles of use, that measures the availability of that money. Leakage from the community must therefore be prevented and recycling made the rule." ...
We should develop or create wealth just as we develop landscapes, by concentrating on conservation of energy and natural resources (reducing the need to earn), by developing procreative assets (proliferating forests, prairies, and life systems), by reducing the creation of degenerative assets (roads, monuments, cities), and by constantly divesting ourselves of any surplus wealth to this ends. (Bill Mollisson, 1988. p. 534. Permaculture: a designer's manual)
As an ecological farmer and having arrived late at the bitcoin scene, my perception is that most people cannot grasp that fertile soil, clean water, healthy food and relationships play a much bigger role in healing our communities and in securing a better future...
