tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post8588141549334577252..comments2024-03-18T16:29:17.369-07:00Comments on Inverted Alchemy: An Integral Economy: Make It SimpleDavid Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-5358034196087342052013-08-10T22:30:17.550-07:002013-08-10T22:30:17.550-07:00recargar simple mobileThis is really a nice post,T...<a href="http://mysimplemobileshop.com/" rel="nofollow">recargar simple mobile</a>This is really a nice post,Thanks.<br /> <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11060653644125898331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-40623031143847242092013-08-09T12:32:09.338-07:002013-08-09T12:32:09.338-07:00This is a very compelling article Dave. I look for...This is a very compelling article Dave. I look forward to realizing new ways of distancing myself from the machine. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-8930689910556091322013-08-04T18:53:55.155-07:002013-08-04T18:53:55.155-07:00Brilliant David – very clearly put! Humans don’t ...Brilliant David – very clearly put! Humans don’t appreciate money just as fish don’t appreciate water. I see money as a battery – it was never intended to be the primary value in itself, only as a device to enable energy transfer. So we cannot use the money artefact as the value in itself – we need to look deeper to identify the real value sources!<br />Peter Hojgaard-OlsenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-80450537864697030422013-08-04T17:02:38.203-07:002013-08-04T17:02:38.203-07:00continued…Part 2 of 2
And I'm glad you came o...continued…Part 2 of 2<br /><br />And I'm glad you came out and said it -- this goes for "financial professionals", as well. It's extraordinary to me and downright FRIGHTENING, in many respects! We're really unfolding towards a pretty sobering moment of Truth, I feel, at some point. When we unfold into the moment of Truth, exactly, is challenging to predict. It could be within years, it could be longer. It seems imminent, though, and the nature of how we unfold into it could be 'more proactive' in nature or more cataclysmic in nature based on the number of folks choosing to wake up to & honor the Truth prior to the event. The degree to which the resistance to, and denial of, the Truths universal feedback is signaling us to face is the degree to which the event will be systemically crippling [or worse] and painful [or worse] for more individuals.<br /><br />Personally, I feel it would be best for us, collectively, as a species, to proactively invite in this moment of Truth rather than have it thrust upon us by market breakdown. I'd much prefer we simply "get real" and openly look at what we've designed, here, and face up to the realities that it's simply no longer relevant or sustainable. <br /><br />It served, as you suggested, as kind of a 'proprietarian capitalistic' system that has been "effective" the last couple centuries at stimulating some profound "leaps-&-bounds" innovation & materialist evolution, hwvr, it seems clear we've reached a point, multidimensionally & contextually, where we're being called to put the brakes on all this sooner rather than later, face this moment of Truth, and work together across the planet to redesign our macro- & micro economic systems & structures to be in greater congruency with the ecosystemic contexts that provide for our being in the first place : )<br /><br />I gather this is the work you do and I commend you for it, and I appreciate reading these Inverted Alchemy pieces. I particularly appreciated this one because I feel it hits on the most relevantly pressing issue of the time....."chronic, indoctrinated financial illiteracy".....and not just illiteracy within the general public, but within the financial professions, themselves. It's an "Emperor's Clothes" [un]reality and very few are shining a light on it as constructively as you are, in my opinion. <br /><br />There are a lot of blamers & haters & "truthers" & doomsayers out there, and what I find refreshing about you & your approach is the realism integrated with genuine enthusiasm & optimism for what is, indeed, "possible"....the design of financial systems aligned with natural systems that will, through their design, optimally unleash human ingenuity & creativity in ways that authentically enhance & enrich the human experience for everyone, rather than degrade it as it's presently doing. That's, at least, how I interpret what you're putting forth through your work.<br /><br />Sorry for the long 2-part comment.....just felt inspired by your article. Peace & continued success on all levels & fronts!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351222167860635235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-80413246316710951942013-08-04T17:01:54.880-07:002013-08-04T17:01:54.880-07:00Great article, David....hitting the nails on the h...Great article, David....hitting the nails on the heads with this one. <br /><br />Personally, I went to biz school & ultimately became a CPA after majoring in American Studies in undergrad because I wanted to understand, fundamentally, what money was & how it worked within micro-economic systems. I found it a fascinating course of study.<br /><br />When I came out into the working world and had the mindshare freed up from school to begin studying the broader economy [more out of intellectual & existential curiosity than any professional interest, per se], I was seeing incongruencies with the way money systems within micro-economic systems worked & were evaluated and the way macro-economic systems worked & were evaluated. The incongruencies were at first compelling to me, then puzzling. I knew there must be some reasons/motivations underlying the incongruencies.<br /><br />Then I dove back into reflecting upon & processing how the money systems were structured & working within the micro-economic systems and was seeing incongruencies between those systems & structures and natural systems & structures.....characterizing "human beings" as "expenses" on the income statement, for example, while characterizing "plant & equipment" as "assets" on the balance sheet. <br /><br />As you well know & guide, how inputs are characterized in the reporting impacts evaluation of "success"/"performance" and, consequently, ends up driving decision-making and behavior. One simply can not understate the significance of how the characterization of economic inputs & factors within financial reporting shapes the nature of perceptions, decision-making, behavior and, ultimately, in turn, macro-systemic & ecosystemic outcomes. <br /><br />This significance was not fully seen & appreciated by those who originally designed the systems & made "the rules" as contextual restraints were not only not pressing, they seemed, perhaps, irrelevant. The designers' primary interests were fostering systems with centralized decision-making structures, protecting property rights, maintaining social order, etc. These weren't/aren't necessarily irrelevant or unworthy interests or objectives, however, the explosive population growth, the increasing interdependent nature of our reality given resource constraints and technological innovations, and the huge efficiency gains from technological innovation that have reduced necessity/demand for physical labor, substantially, are new factors existing financial reporting & operating systems don't "factor in". The result is decision-making & behavior incentivized by reporting that doesn't take these significant factors into account. <br /><br />When I started unfolding into some of these realizations I began thinking...."uh-oh.....we could be in trouble, here". This "Thing" (i.e., meaning, the "whole-kit-&-kaboodle") is not set up to "Win".<br /><br />That informal endeavor of study for me began back in 2005 - 6 and culminated in '08 - '09 as everything began unraveling at the seams.<br /><br />The degree to which one understands & appreciates how human-made systems & structures must be designed & modeled after "successful" (i.e., "co-creative") natural systems in order to realize similar contextually "co-creative success" is the degree to which one can clearly see how off track we (i.e., our present systems & structures) actually are.<br /><br />And yet, as you suggest in the article, most folks have yet to go that deep in their study & fuller understanding & awareness regarding how our present financial systems are designed and how they "work" -- or more aptly put, how they are designed to "not work". Many continue to keep their awareness at the level of "simply needing money" which is a very limited level of awareness & understanding which, in essence, is no longer sustainable.<br /><br />continued…<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06351222167860635235noreply@blogger.com