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Bernard Lietaer, Beyond Greed and Scarcity, YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, (Spring 1997)
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Instead of pitting people against each other, the (local currency) system actually ... enables us to consciously design money to work for us, instead of us for it. ..These objectives are in our grasp within less than one generation's time. Whether we materialize them or not will depend on our capacity to cooperate with each other to consciously reinvent our money... For the first time in human history we have available the production technologies to create unprecedented abundance...

— Bernard Lietaer on Work

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Instead of pitting people against each other, the (local currency) system actually ... enables us to consciously design money to work for us, instead of us for it. ..These objectives are in our grasp within less than one generation's time. Whether we materialize them or not will depend on our capacity to cooperate with each other to consciously reinvent our money... For the first time in human history we have available the production technologies to create unprecedented abundance..." in the context of "Bernard Lietaer, Beyond Greed and Scarcity, YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, (Spring 1997)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bernard Lietaer

About Bernard Lietaer

Bernard Lietaer (7 February 1942 – 4 February 2019) was a civil engineer, economist, author, professor and philosopher who studied monetary systems and promoted the idea that communities can benefit from creating their own local or complementary currency, which circulate parallel with national currencies.