The less we know about each other, the better things will be.
The trick is that it discourages investments like clear-cutting that pay off more and sooner but then stop paying off because they weren't sustainable. The reason is that there are now too many forms of dollar-quantified electronic accounts which can be used for transactions. Centrally created money is authoritarian bank or government, whereas the distributed money injection is inherently egalitarian. Also here in Europe we feel the grown pressure to compete with Fedex, but so far here in Europe there has been no real indication that we should be afraid of them,. Your cogent comments illustrate the folly of basing money on precious metals. When Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall, excessive consumer credit-card debt is going to be a splattered yolk. The legislation also provides corporations with incentives to hire nonabled workers, including tax breaks for those who hire one non-germane worker for every two talented hirees. Everyone loves getting mail, and I'll keep our deal between us.
Of course, none of this had anything to do with cheap oil. Something could also have been said about Major Douglas and his original Social Credit movement which later became just another political party in western Canada. The less we know about each other, the better things will be. My ambition possibly delusional is to write young-adult science fiction novels that will be almost as good as Heinlein's. To prevent the money supply from dwindling to nothing over time, the total amount of devaluation or demurrage fee is redistributed equally to every person. Savings accounts are not a good investment, and, after taxes, they are a rather bad investment.
Are you an enabler? Do you need to be needed by the needy? Are you desperate for the attention of someone. For the last 30 years, we've effectively had "demurrage", and it has not led to the long term view espoused by the post. The American Revolution was financed by printing money, and so was the French Revolution. This is an excellent issue that most people don't seem to grasp or care to. So far I have two volumes of my future history done and have plotted out the third volume. Im willing to eat whatever you want for a cash in hand transaction. Spending money into circulation isn't redistributing wealth because the money hasn't been taken from anybody, it's been created for the purposes of the economy. Also, I really identify with Hazel Stone, an oldster after my own heart, though I question the wisdom of loading my handgun with gum drops. Building a cathedral was the ultimate in long term investment.