Fixing the Mismatch between Money and Value

 Part of the radical restructuring must be a return to intention.

That is to say, systems that we create - these constructed social machines that we set loose into our world - need to be designed so that their primary goal, their main operating principle, their "modus operandi" is to accomplish what we actually need it to accomplish.

The news media should be supplying us with high quality news.

Political debates and races should be about providing us with the most competant, best possible candidates.

The healthcare system should be about providing us with the best possible healthcare.

Technology should be about working with us as biological creatures to enhance our lives and wellbeing as much as possible. Part of this, of course, includes being beneficial to the ecosystem as a whole.

Clothing manufacturers should be about making high quality, highly functional clothing that is durable.

Schools should be about nurturing youth and adults and providing the best possible learning and growth and healing for them.

On and on it goes...

 

The problem is that for all of these things I mentioned, these goals which they ostensibly exist for, in practice they actually do not exist for. All of their vital goals are actually secondary effects...! They exist to make money. Corporations generate capital for their stockholders. All you need to do is open your eyes and look around at the shit hole we are in to easily determine that our current system is a bad system.

As a bodyworker, I understand that my job is crucially important. I help people heal their nervous systems, and integrate themselves as biological creatures. I help "melt" people so that they can find themselves again, waking up as slimy organisms on the beach. 

Society expects me to charge each individual who comes to see me >$100. Society does not let me do my job of helping people in the best way, because I must participate in this idiotic monetary transaction-ism. Not unlike how schools force people into one structure of learning that is built on antiquated norms from the industrial period, to which the evidence is completely overwhelming that this structure conflicts with our natural biological needs, tendencies, and selves at almost every level.

Bodyworkers intuitively know that this system of charging >$100 a pop every time is garbage, we all struggle with it. We all go through a stage when we have to convince ourselves that "we are worth it", "the client giving money balances out the energy exchange", or we just go on giving people discounts and eating plain potatoes for lunch. 

There does indeed need to be an energy exchange, the clients usually must bring us something. They have to give us some sort of offering. That allows them to feel secure, and receive our services in the best way. There's a reason humans have been doing it this way through history. 

But we should absolutely not be getting paid from the pockets of individual clients. There, I said it, it is a terrible system. Guess what, if we are competent or highly competent, people will give us their money. They will give us their money because they don't want their money. Well a lot of them anyway. They are suffering too and want a better world, one that will meet their needs, including their need to live in a healthy world. 

My proposal is to create a tax-exempt fundraising pool where people with excessive money that they don't want can dump extra money - marie kondo that shit out of their lives - and write it off on their taxes. This fundraising pool will probably end up having a lot of money in it so we pay the health workers a salary directly from there and they don't charge their clients anything. Their clients can bring them stuff, like a casserole or whatever, or money if they want - they can put it into the fund. Obviously if people keep bringing the same burnt cookies every time we can evaluate how the best way to handle that is. Thus the clients have no power over us, and we can do our jobs to genuinely serve them in a way not hampered by structural limitations.

I had an idea that a religion structure could theoretically pay therapists in the same way as it paid pastors, but now I'm not sure if that would be feasible. The next idea would be a regular non-profit 501c3.