No social change takes place without convulsions in the transformation between one life paradigm into another, as it's taking place now with the current paradigm transforming into the new one.
This film is describing the process we're going through today, offering us the opportunity to make sense of the uncertainty prompted by the global debt crisis.
The socio-economic narrative being promoted, is toxic to the community's minds in benefit of the financial Cabal that profits from it.
The film has very positive conclusions, daring to offer examples and suggestions to a fairer way of sharing where the human element is the main purpose of the socio-economic system.
Capital is relegated to its rightful place as one of the many elements in the economic set of transactions, but being awarded more equally to all the individuals involved in the enterprise during the wealth generation process, in opposition to the current Capitalist system giving by default all benefits to the holders of capital, over and above the other economic agents of people involved, because the main motivator in the current system is personal greed.
While the current Capitalist system turns people into commodities to be used as part of the process to extract the most profit for the corporation regardless of their circumstances, to be discarded like any other part in the machinery when its use is no more essential for the maximum generation of profits, the new paradigm is relegating the importance of capital formation to a second plain, and instead is emphasizing the individual person's value for the enterprise, as its main purpose.
There's a huge corporation in Spain called MONDRAGON becoming one of the largest in the country with over 74 thousand workers and a turnover of almost 12 billion Euros per year, where all of them are owners in a cooperative way, showing it's possible for employee-run large corporations sharing the directive control and the resulting capital formation more equally among every worker in the enterprise.
As explained by anthropologist David Graeber in his book - DEBT:The first 5,000 years - humanity has already gone through several attempts to solve this issue, and there are some periods in history where the use of money wasn't part of it, as when the Phoenicians traded in the Mediterranean sea for a hundred years, including trade with the Romans when the empire had already an established coin currency. The Phoenicians used a credit-exchange-system similar to the one used by bankers among themselves today, tallying up all transactions back and forth to be squared-off at the end of a given time period like a day, a month, or a year.
At times one party may have credits and at another debits. But at a predetermined time in the Credit Exchange System process in the cycle, is agreed for all the parties in the system to square off the accounts.
Credit exchanges where a unit is used to measure value of goods and services to be exchanged by a group of people, is spontaneously being set up in places like Greece and Italy where the official Euro currency is being held back by the manipulation of the Cabal of financial families who use debt to extract wealth from those who ignore the facts about Fractional Reserve money creation.
In Europe this Cabal controls the BIS, the ECB and in USA controls the FED, as most central banks in the world are under the direction of the same Cabal.
Libya's central bank was not part of their control, until they manipulated the assassination of its leader Gaddafy who was in the process of establishing a competing new currency based in Africa using gold as its base. The Cabal couldn't allow that to happen, and as it has done in the past in Guatemala, Chile, Iran, Syria and Ukraine, among others, it orchestrated an artificial "popular movement" to destroy the threat while using its controlled corporate Media to wipe up an illusory narrative to brainwash the sleeping masses in the West to support it. After the collapse of the Libyan economy, a complete disaster was left in their society, with little remorse from the psychopaths who form the Cabal, as its also happening in Syria and Ukraine. The claims of attempting to bring "democracy" to these countries is quite ironic given the lack of real democracy in most Western countries, including the US and the EU, as the experience with Greece is showing us.
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Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity?
This cinematic odyssey connects the dots on our current economic pains and offers a new story of money based on an emerging paradigm of planetary well-being that understands all of life as profoundly interconnected.
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