Currency

As soon as money was invented to replace bartering, two further innovations emerged; financial debt and wealth. We will live to regret this. Actually, we already are.

Efforts to ban the provision of debt, or the accumulation of wealth have abounded over the millennia. Neither sets of effort achieved much other than to annoy people.

Ultimately, the planets’ limited resources will bring money to heel. But both debt and wealth will have to be curtailed simultaneously for there to be any real impact.