The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.

Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people.