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The Luddite’s Guide to defending Cash – Why the cashless society endangers our Freedom

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Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets – Book Presentation by Brett Scott and Online Conference

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Brett Scott presented his new book “Cloud Money – Cash, Cards, Crypto and the war for our wallets” on Friday February 17, 2023 at a monneta online conference.

The digitization of money is tightening the link between Big Tech and Big Finance. Our data, especially our payment data, is the gold of the future.

  • Will the greatest power of the future be in the hands of those, who can access and use our data?
  • Who benefits from a cashless society and who gets left behind?
  • How can democracies prevent mass surveillance, censorship and manipulation on the basis of Big Data?

The author Brett Scott has written extensively on financial reform, digital finance, alternative currencies, blockchain technology and the cashless society. He is a monetary anthropologist, a former derivative broker and a campaigner for monetary reform.

Why diversity in currencies matters?

In times of crisis we are confronted with inflation, poverty and inequality .But Euros are scares and the huge Euro-System cannot solve all issues. Would more diversity in currencies help?
Yes – is the answer given by advocates and practitioners of complementary currencies. These do not aim to replace the Euro but supplement it in various ways. They are smaller, voluntary, more flexible in fulfilling various needs, from the support of the local economy, environmental protection and social cohesion. This video presents examples and explanations.

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Brett Scott: The Landscape of Money

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More about the author Brett Scott on his website: https://alteredstatesof.money/

Why money matters

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A flaw in the monetary system

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Do flaws in our monetary system consistently cause financial crises?

So far, critical questions concerning our monetary system and the financial crisis have been underexposed.

The new film ‘A Flaw in the Monetary System?’ depicts in 7 ½ minutes consequences of interest and compound interest in the financial world in descriptive graphics. It illustrates the
systematic redistribution of money from the majority to the wealthy.

Introducing: Finance Watch, Brussels

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Our MONNETA film team travelled to Brussels to feature Finance Watch, an organisation that has been providing a counter weight to the lobby of the financancial industry since 2011.

Since 2017 MONNETA is  an organisational member of Finance watch.

Interview: Charles Eisenstein

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Jump directly to the following questions covered in this interview:

Q 1 –   How did you start thinking about money?
Q 2 –   Is your work on money-systems related to your personal experiences?
Q 3 –   What did you expect when you started your research and what do you think about your findings today?
Q 4 –   Do you see any positive effect of the financial-crisis of 2008?
Q 5 –   Do you think we will experience more financial crises in the future?
Q 6 –   Where do you see big obstacles for changing the financial system?
Q 7 –   Which practical projects do you consider capable of changing something in our economy?
Q 8 –   How likely is it, trying to make a living with work that you really enjoy?
Q 9 –   What would you tell people who feel helpless and ask, what they can do to make a change?
Q 10 – Does the monetary system hurt people? Do you have personal experience with systemic violence of the financial system?
Q 11 – How is scarcity of money artificially built into our system?
Q 12 – Regarding your children – what do you fear and what do you hope for?

Interview: Bernard Lietaer

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Jump directly to the following questions covered in this interview:

Q 1 – Where does money come from?
Q 2 – Is money neutral?
Q 3 – Why is money scarce?
Q 4 – Can this monetary system work sustainably?
Q 5 – Does the financial system need growth?
Q 6 – Why are you interested in monetary-systems?
Q 7 – Do we have just one monetary system at the moment? Like a monopoly?
Q 8 – What would you propose regarding the monetary system?
Q 9 – Are there alternatives to the current monetary system?
Q 10 – Why is there this speechlessness about money-topics?
Q 11a – What kind of behaviour does our money-system create between people?
Q 11b – Does the scarcity of money harm only the poor people?
Q 11c – What does money do to people and their relationships?
Q 12 – How did you discover complementary currencies?
Q 13 – Did the knowledge of complementary currencies effect your life?
Q 14 – What do you think your co-author Margrit Kennedy achieved in regard to monetary systems?
Q 15 – Are there changes to this financial system?
Q 16 – What do you think about internet-based currencies like Bitcoin and the new technology Blockchain?
Q 17 – You observed the global financial development for decades. What do you conclude from your experience?
Q 18 – Where do you see practical progress concerning complementary currencies?
Q 19 – What would you propose for countries which are in Euro-crisis like Greece?
Q 20 – If you were in power, what would you do?
Q 21 – What do you think about the Euro?
Q 22 – For which task do we need the Euro?
Q 23 – Could a currency have influence on the question of war or peace?
Q 24 – Are there “currency-wars” or wars because of currencies?
Q 25 – Does the money-system polarize?
Q 26 – Can a national lead-currency deprive other currencies and nations?
Q 27 – What is the motivation for your work?
Q 28 – Do you like to give a message to the next generation?

Leander Bindewald: Community Currencies – Tools for Transition (2015)

Slides of the keynote presentation at EPP2016, Copenhagen Business School, can be found here.

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