Money Is But An Abstract Construct Of The Human Imagination

  Ever thought why we always yearn for more money? Why do we always believe that money is and will continue to be our saviour, even if pursuing more money now will induce a climate breakdown and, consequently, conduce a calamitous apocalyptic end to our civilisation. To perceive why money will not save us in the eventuality of a climate-induced dystopia, let's conceive the following analogy.

Let's say that you have stupendous amounts of money. And the climate calamity strikes and we're living in an unpredictable dystopian apocalypse characterised by widespread food shortages, collapsing of supply chains, falling of governments and governing institutions, severe water shortages and hordes of migrants fleeing their respective once homelands for other places with more benign and temperate weather conditions favourable for survival and thriving. Even if your net worth was a trillion dollars, that money will amount to nothing if you cannot use it to pay for anything.

Here's an analogy. Let's say there's a rocket heading to Mars. On that spaceship there are a few astronauts and all their necessary equipment. Now, let's conceive another space shuttle with the same kind and amount of equipment, but as an addition, it has a trillion dollars in cash on board. Now, if both of them arrive at Mars, would it be reasonable to assume or suppose that the one with the cash will have an edge or advantage over the the one that doesn't? Would it be justifiable to say that the cash will be an advantage to the space shuttle that possesses it? Would it be a just and credible postulation to propose that the cash will be of any use or benefit to the astronauts on board the pertaining shuttle? The answer is a screaming conspicuous NO!

Here's the gist of all of this. Money is worthless if you cannot spend it due to to being of no value or because of lack of people to pay. What determines whether money is actually worth anything, is the ability to utilise it and get things done for you. This signifies and evinces the fact that money does not possess inherent value, it only holds the potential for value, as it's value is contingent upon it's ability to make things happen. If there's a no one to pay, then money is not an asset, but a liability, as it will only take up space. Thereby, rendering money useless and worthless.

As with the Space shuttle analogy, money becomes utterly in vain in a climate-induced apocalyptic world. Consequently, we ought to stop sacrificing the real resources of our planet and ourselves for the sake of an imaginary, unreal and helpless commodity. We cannot buy our way out of a climate-induced crisis and dystopian world. We cannot buy another planet with money. So, it is imperative and sorely essential to realise and acknowledge the fact that money is unreal and it will not save us from the repercussions of the climate crisis.

Keeping in mind that when pervasive and widespread crop failures take place around the world, inducing famine, no one will be immune from the crisis, because, you cannot eat money! Thereby, money grants no impunity from the punishing ramifications and dreadful consequences of the climate crisis. And that realisation alone, can single-handedly reshape and transform our mindsets and the way we see money, from seeing money as something desirable and worth pursuing at almost all costs, to something that is the cause of needless suffering stemming from greed and rapaciousness.

Date of Original Entry: Circa Jan 16, 2022