🧵 The Antidote to Chaos by @AniceLajnef
Our economy is broken. For centuries, power has been held by the greedy.
Those who see the world only through financial returns and infinite accumulation.
The turning point?
The Middle Ages, when society abandoned the ancient prohibition on usury (charging interest on debt).
This unleashed a venom that poisoned our economy, and our society.
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Our economy is broken. For centuries, power has been held by the greedy.
Those who see the world only through financial returns and infinite accumulation.
The turning point?
The Middle Ages, when society abandoned the ancient prohibition on usury (charging interest on debt).
This unleashed a venom that poisoned our economy, and our society.
(1/12) 🧵
Lessons from Boule de Suif
Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif shows how true character shines through. The altruistic prostitute outshines the greedy elite.
Morality > Appearances.
Our economic system rewards the wrong traits.
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Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif shows how true character shines through. The altruistic prostitute outshines the greedy elite.
Morality > Appearances.
Our economic system rewards the wrong traits.
(2/12) 🧵
The Four Economic Personalities
Every person develops four traits in varying degrees:
1⃣ Altruism (selfless concern for others)
2⃣ Optimism (faith in a better future)
3⃣ Greed (insatiable desire for wealth)
4⃣ Miserliness (hoarding out of fear)
Today, GREED dominates.
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Every person develops four traits in varying degrees:
1⃣ Altruism (selfless concern for others)
2⃣ Optimism (faith in a better future)
3⃣ Greed (insatiable desire for wealth)
4⃣ Miserliness (hoarding out of fear)
Today, GREED dominates.
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The Rise of the Greedy
We handed our economy to the greediest bankers, financiers, billionaires believing wealth would "trickle down."
Instead, they built a system where:
🔸Money = Debt
🔸Debt = Power
🔸Power = Control
Usury fuels infinite accumulation, and infinite chaos.
(4/12) 🧵
We handed our economy to the greediest bankers, financiers, billionaires believing wealth would "trickle down."
Instead, they built a system where:
🔸Money = Debt
🔸Debt = Power
🔸Power = Control
Usury fuels infinite accumulation, and infinite chaos.
(4/12) 🧵
Usury: The Economic Cancer
Usury (interest on debt) is exponential by nature. Like a snowball, it grows until it crushes everything.
Banks create money out of thin air via debt, then charge us for it.
Result? Inequality, crises, wars, ecological collapse.
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Usury (interest on debt) is exponential by nature. Like a snowball, it grows until it crushes everything.
Banks create money out of thin air via debt, then charge us for it.
Result? Inequality, crises, wars, ecological collapse.
(5/12) 🧵
The Cure: A Debt-Free Currency
We need a monetary revolution:
🔹Ban usury (no more interest on debt)
🔹Replace debt-based money with a citizen-controlled currency
🔹Tax hoarded wealth (encourage circulation)
🔹Reward altruism & optimism
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We need a monetary revolution:
🔹Ban usury (no more interest on debt)
🔹Replace debt-based money with a citizen-controlled currency
🔹Tax hoarded wealth (encourage circulation)
🔹Reward altruism & optimism
(6/12) 🧵
Silvio Gesell’s "Melting Money"
A genius idea: Money loses value over time unless spent or invested.
This prevents hoarding and keeps wealth flowing.
Keynes called Gesell a "prophet", his ideas could save us from Marx’s dead ends.
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A genius idea: Money loses value over time unless spent or invested.
This prevents hoarding and keeps wealth flowing.
Keynes called Gesell a "prophet", his ideas could save us from Marx’s dead ends.
(7/12) 🧵
A New Social Contract
We must:
◆︎ End private money creation (return it to the people)
◆︎ Implement a "social dividend" (fair distribution of new money)
◆︎ Tax idle wealth (no more sterile accumulation)
◆︎ Prioritize sustainability
It mimics gold’s scarcity or #Bitcoin’s limit, ensuring ecological and human balance.
(8/12) 🧵
We must:
◆︎ End private money creation (return it to the people)
◆︎ Implement a "social dividend" (fair distribution of new money)
◆︎ Tax idle wealth (no more sterile accumulation)
◆︎ Prioritize sustainability
It mimics gold’s scarcity or #Bitcoin’s limit, ensuring ecological and human balance.
(8/12) 🧵
Breaking Free from Debt Slavery
Today, debt enslaves:
✅ Workers (trapped in jobs they hate)
✅ Nations (controlled by creditors)
✅ Future generations (burdened by our excess)
We must cancel unsustainable debts and reset the system.
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Today, debt enslaves:
✅ Workers (trapped in jobs they hate)
✅ Nations (controlled by creditors)
✅ Future generations (burdened by our excess)
We must cancel unsustainable debts and reset the system.
(9/12) 🧵
A Sustainable Alternative
Imagine an economy where:
✨ Money serves people, not banks
✨ Wealth circulates, not stagnates
✨ Growth is ecological, not exploitative
This isn’t utopia, it’s necessity.
(10/12) 🧵
Imagine an economy where:
✨ Money serves people, not banks
✨ Wealth circulates, not stagnates
✨ Growth is ecological, not exploitative
This isn’t utopia, it’s necessity.
(10/12) 🧵
The Key: Collective Awakening
No change happens without awareness.
We must:
◇ Educate on monetary reform
◇ Reject consumerist brainwashing
◇ Demand economic democracy
The antidote to chaos? Courage + Consciousness.
(11/12) 🧵
No change happens without awareness.
We must:
◇ Educate on monetary reform
◇ Reject consumerist brainwashing
◇ Demand economic democracy
The antidote to chaos? Courage + Consciousness.
(11/12) 🧵
The Choice Is Ours
Continue the cycle of greed → crisis → war?
Or build an economy of harmony, justice, and sustainability?
The time for change is now.
(12/12) 🧵
Continue the cycle of greed → crisis → war?
Or build an economy of harmony, justice, and sustainability?
The time for change is now.
(12/12) 🧵
What do you think?
Can we break free from greed’s grip and build a fairer system?
Let’s discuss! 👇
Can we break free from greed’s grip and build a fairer system?
Let’s discuss! 👇
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