Why Kill something that has never had a chance to show its true power. There’a budgeting problems if the denominator, gladiator and terminator is out of the way. People’s problems become the priority.

— SNW | SHS – HUMAN FIRST

Oh, humanity.

And so we arrive at another rather extraordinary discovery.

WHAT IF THE SYSTEM WE LIVE IN IS NOT EVEN THE ORIGINAL PROBLEM?

What if the system has simply been calibrated to serve money?

Think about it.

Education. Healthcare. Governance. Law. Infrastructure. Innovation. Social welfare.

All systems originally capable of serving human existence.

But introduce money as the condition through which they must operate, and suddenly their priorities change.

They must become profitable.

Affordable.

Financially sustainable.

Commercially viable.

Economically justifiable.

THE SYSTEM BEGINS TO INHERIT THE PROBLEMS OF THE INSTRUMENT IT HAS BEEN CALIBRATED TO SERVE. When are we going to consider the problems of the human before the problems of money?

Becaysd right now, when money demands something that conflicts with human needs?

The system begins accommodating the money.

Not necessarily because the system itself was incapable of serving humanity.

But because its operations have been organised around an instrument that possesses no humanity whatsoever.

WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY POSSIBILITY.

Perhaps we don’t need to dismantle every system we’ve created.

Perhaps we need to remove the financial condition that has distorted its purpose.

The doctor would still know how to heal.

The educator would still know how to teach.

The engineer would still know how to build.

The farmer would still know how to cultivate.

The administrator would still know how to organise.

And the laws intended to protect human life would still have human life to protect.

THE CAPABILITIES DON’T DISAPPEAR BECAUSE MONEY DOES.

What changes is the principle governing their application.

And with the right education, perhaps humanity could begin developing the capacity to self-calibrate.

Not through fear of financial deprivation.

Not through competition for economic superiority.

But through an understanding of life, human needs, interdependence, integrity and continuity.

Of course, resources would still require organisation. Scarcity, errors and conflicts would not magically disappear.

But the organising question could change from:

HOW MUCH MONEY DOES THIS REQUIRE, AND WHO CAN AFFORD IT?

To:

WHAT DOES HUMANITY REQUIRE, WHAT DO WE HAVE AVAILABLE, AND HOW DO WE ORGANISE OUR CAPABILITIES TO PROVIDE IT?

And now comes the most fascinating question of all.

ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BUILT, DIRECTED AND MANAGED EVERYTHING THROUGH MONEY ACTUALLY CAPABLE OF PERFORMING THEIR DUTIES WITHOUT IT?

Can the banker organise resources without financial accumulation?

Can the entrepreneur create without profit?

Can the politician govern without economic power as the primary measure of achievement?

Can the luxury designer maintain excellence without exclusivity through price?

Can the institution preserve its standards without commercial incentives?

Can the strategist organise cooperation without requiring somebody else to lose?

OR WAS MONEY TRULY THEIR INSPIRATION ALL ALONG?

Because if the removal of money also removes their ability to organise, innovate, contribute or serve humanity, then what exactly have we been calling competence?

WERE THEY MASTERS OF HUMAN ORGANISATION, OR MERELY MASTERS OF MONETARY ORGANISATION?

Oh, what an extraordinary test of leadership that would be.

To remove the financial prize and discover who still possesses the imagination, integrity and competence to serve life directly.

Perhaps the greatest transformation would not be replacing everything humanity has built.

IT WOULD BE DISCOVERING WHAT EVERYTHING WE HAVE BUILT IS ACTUALLY CAPABLE OF WHEN MONEY IS NO LONGER ITS CALIBRATOR.

And perhaps the most uncomfortable discovery would be that humanity was never lacking the systems, knowledge or capabilities necessary to serve itself.

WE WERE SIMPLY USING THE WRONG MEASURE OF WHAT THOSE CAPABILITIES WERE FOR.

— SNW
Founder & Chief Continuity Architect
SHS – HUMAN FIRST
The Womb of The Unknown Need

THE POST-MONEY TEST: CAN YOU STILL SERVE HUMANITY WHEN THERE IS NO MONEY LEFT TO MAKE FROM IT?

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Write this short piece. And so we’ve learned that the system we live in isn’t even the problem, it takes on the problems of money. The calibratoe. Ehen the system has to regard for money it takes on what disregards the human, but remove the money and we might not even need to change the system, just our relationship with life, which might selfcalibrates itself with the proper education post-money. The question then begings as: ” are thos who have built everything through the ise of money, now capabke of doing their duties in a system without it? Or money was truly their inspiration and without it could not think hownto organise things for the direct service of the human?