Saturday, July 6, 2019

A Consumer-Based Economy Is Not Wealth

Chris Martenson, of Peak Prosperity, indicates, as I have also said, that we cannot continually rely upon a consumer-based economy that counts on everything always getting bigger (i.e., bigger populations, bigger homes, bigger GDP, bigger deficits, more speculation). It is unsustainable. It is not wealth. Wealth is a healthy, robust environment. Wealth is a well-educated and healthy population. Money is an illusion. You all know that, right? The captains of the economy manipulate it, at our expense.

We need an education- and value-based economy. Spend money on learning, until the day you die. Spend money on increasing the value of the things with which you surround yourselves: your home, your land, your community, your state, and your nation.

Loren M. Lambert © January 19, 2014

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