[MD] A French revolutionary thought

[David M]

Hi Arlo

Is it possible to imagine a time when money is suddenly worth no more
than the paper it is? A great crisis of money? Suddenly we would have
no savings and no shares and no mortgages and no debts. What would
happen? Perhaps the government could make an appeal that we all
kept going to work to keep things going, we could still make things and
provide services and go to shops to pick things up for nothing,
and we would have to be restrained and only pick up what we needed
so as not to create unnecessary shortages. However we would no longer
have to keep recording what everyone had, who owed what to who,
who owned thecompanies we workewd for, who made a profit, etc, etc.
So all that workthat is done simply to record and keep the score in the
sustaining of inequality would be gone. We could all work a lot less,
spend time with our children, more ease and pleasure, or more education.
The main oil of the economy would have to be trust and sustainable 
consumption. Anyone care to join me in this new world? Cold it be
done? How can we set it up, would we all need to jump together?

DM