The problem is not that there is not enough money in the world. The problem is that most of the money is concentrated in so few hands. Money as a concept worked well for a long time but it is just ridiculous to keep structuring our societies around a concept that leaves most people spending their entire lives just trying to make ends meet A small minority bask in selfish opulence while the vast majority live in squalor, desperation or dissatisfaction.

Getting rid of money is not plausible or particularly helpful. What needs to be done is that the global financial and local economic systems need to be structured in such a way as to take the competitive bite out of the market. That the vast majority of people struggle is no great secret but I think that it is not a matter of redistributing wealth so much as it is a matter of restructuring the very concepts that underpin our notions of wealth, economy and success. There is enough money getting around for everyone to be quite comfortable and for those few that feel they need it to spoil themselves rotten. There is too much money fluttering around for there to be any homelessness or starvation in this world.

It’s about damn time someone rethought the system because it evolved from much smaller market economies and is dangerously top-heavy. After our recent Global Financial Crisis - who really believes that the actions of governments and corporations will end up in anything more than a rather tamely modified version of business-as-usual ?

Again - money is not the problem, the way that our value systems and priorities are structured may be the real culprit. Money can sometimes buy some form of freedom but it can never truly buy peace or love which are the two things the world needs much more than credit, finance and stock-market gains.