On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:38 AM, just camel <[email protected]> wrote: > The governments probably already knows that the current system is broken and > will crash ... there are hundreds of thousands of people out there already > working on implementing a cooperative monetary system. They may not succeed > ... it may become really ugly ... but it can also be a very smooth > transition with the right plan. Using the right model the rich and powerful > can even keep their purchasing power and everyone else will be elevated to a > sensible standard of living. Once competition and the incentive of personal > profit is gone the "elites" have no more power ... they only have power as > long as others believe in their power, have fear and compete. (divide et > impera)
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