Any economic system basing its success on material consumption, either raw or refined, defines wealth as eating yourself: self-cannibalism.
Sure, take a bite out of your arm and your body can derive more calories than you spent by biting off the chunk of flesh, especially if you use a knife instead of just your teeth.
But digestion also consumes energy (transportation, manufacturing, packaging, marketing, delivery, trash collection, and recycling). And then what? Where do you acquire the nutrients needed to heal your self-made wound?
Or do you plan to leave your wound unhealed? It stays there as a toxic waste dump? A tar sands oil refinery? A decommissioned nuclear power-generation station? Plastic in the oceans? Methane in the atmosphere? Depleted-uranium bullets you can fire into 'enemy territory'? Who is the enemy? You think you can dump it into the ocean? You like eating your own feces?
Your strategy is to stay alive by chewing off more and more of your own flesh? By now, with clear-cutting, deep drilling, mountaintop removal, and open-pit mines, we are already gnawing the last bits of flesh off the bones of the Earth. You are of the Earth. This is self-cannibalism.
Material-based GNP is a lie, a self-deception of the grandest order.
Human beings do not produce any material Value on Earth.
We imagine making ourselves fat by eating ourselves.
An entirely different Gross National Product can be implemented, one that only measures Nonmaterial Value.
Nonmaterial Value is often more valuable than any material currency can pay for.
If you ever received or experienced Nonmaterial Value, you understand how trying to pay with money in exchange for the Clarity or Possibility you received is not a fair exchange. No amount of money can actually pay for a new future.
What is 'Nonmaterial Value'? It is Value that does not include any materials in its creation.
Nonmaterial Value is value that is not connected to owning, having, possessing, using, repairing, buying, renting, maintaining, selling, mining, processing, designing, manufacturing, storing, stealing, recycling, or transporting material objects. Money is a material object.
Then, if Value is created, it is created by you, the human being.
Instead of city streets lined with shoe shops, clothing fashions, jewelry stores, the latest electronics, automobile showrooms, banks, watch shops, and concept stores, the center of town is a car-free zone, with shops for rage clubs, intimacy cafe's, possibility teams, emotional healing process dojos, adulthood initiation centers, 3 phase healing, Torus Technology meetings, and nonmaterial skill-building
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