David C. Korten
Author, Lecturer, Engaged Citizen

Money

Why do you call money history's most successful con game?

Ideally an economy is a system of production and money is a medium of exchange. The contemporary corporate-led global economy is less a system of production than a system of power and money is a con game that allows those who control the money system to expropriate the real wealth or resources of everyone else without producing anything of value in exchange. To understand the con, it is necessary to recognize the crucial distinction between money and real wealth. Contrary to what we are conditioned to believe, money isn't wealth.

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