Restoring the Commons

This is an excellent statement here.  It is about the importance of the Public Commons. Money is a social media we all use to make decisions about the use of resources.  Raw resources or those resources that have been produced from raw resources including intellectual resources.  Money is the common tool involved in the decision of what thing of value we will spend it upon.

It is really all about resource management not about money.  It is about how much resources we have, not how much money.  Those with the most money, collectively or individually have the greatest decision making power.  Dividing between the have money and don't have (have not) money categories of people puts the category of have nots having little decision making power over the allocation of resources beyond the basic necessities of life they are all competing to obtain.   The place where these people compete is the the commons.  That is what they have to protect:  The commons.  The same commons resource that those with great amounts of power to make resource decisions with money seek to exploit.

We will reach a crises point where short term thinking has destroyed the commons and at that time radical ideas that will not be liked by those that used their money power to consume the resources of the commons find the resources are no longer there not can any amount of money have the power to do anything about the tragic situation of killing the common goose that laid all the golden eggs.  The power of the people with then make the decisions and perhaps extract retribution for the excessive extraction of resources.  One of those resources suffering about by those with money power to drive resource distribution being the the distribution of money itself in our society.

Some good things will be done to correct the problem of the consumption of the commons by privatization of the commons itself or the the privatization of the benefits of the commons by rent extraction.  They will not be done until the crises point is reached.  At that point the right to continue extract from the commons by those with money power will be defended by the government.  Then there will be some hard decisions made determining if we really have a government of the people or of the people with money power.

The Commons are our resources.  We use money to make decisions about their allocation.
We.  Us.  Ourselves are the Commons.  Our own collective resource as human beings with thing that we possess that is our most valuable common resource:  Our minds and the capability of applying those minds to produce the things for our lives both material and intellectual.  Excessive extraction by those with money power from those with little money power.