Helicopter Money and a Game of Kick the Can (Episode 12 of Crazy Town)

So, forget imposing resource caps as such.  We need to set targets for reduced resource use, yes. And then use credit guidance to adjust investment flows accordingly, until the targets are achieved.

Recent research has found that we have more than enough productive capacity to end poverty forever and ensure good lives for all 8 billion people on this planet – with even less resources and energy than we presently use, thus also achieving our ecological goals – if production was organized around human needs rather than capital accumulation.

Those coming into power now on a worldwide wave of discontent appear to understand little about the ultimate underlying causes of that discontent.