(EN) In United States, unlike Europe, the critical approach to the fundamentals of neoliberism is going mainstream and many authors go back to the beginning of capitalism to help us put everything in perspective. These are the “heresies” contained in Life Inc., bestseller by Douglas Rushkoff: Money is not a part of nature, to be studied by a science like economics, but an invention with a specific purpose. Centralized currency is just one kind of money – one not intended to promote transactions but to promote the accumulation of capital by the wealthy. Banking is our society’s biggest industry, and debt is our biggest product. Corporations were never intended to promote commerce, but to prevent it. The development of chartered corporations and centralized currency caused the plague; the economic devastation ended Europe’s most prosperous centuries, and led to the deaths of half of its population. The more money we make, the more debt we have actually created. But don’t despair,
read more How the world became a corporation / Come il mondo si è trasformato in una corporation
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