The problem is that we are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality, so while markets need money to circulate, people see it as the signal to extract and store. Requiring ever more to be introduced and ever more metastatic ways to store what has been extracted.

For example, could the capital markets function, without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus investment money? No.

Our religion of money accumulation requires an economy of debt.

Money can't be both medium and store. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. The hallway is a medium, the hall closet is a store. The average five year old can figure that out.

Networks matter as much as the nodes inhabiting them. Our individualistic ethos creates this atomized culture, where we can all hide in our little coccoons and trade these notes around. Creating the perfect situation for top down authority to rule. We divide ourselves and they conquer.

Eventually the premise of the commons, as a communal store of value, will have to be resurrected.

Which isn't socialism, as society needs both public and private assets, like a house has family and personal spaces.

Money is a public utility and needs to be recogized as such. It's not your picture on it, you don't hold the copyrights and are not personally responsible for its value. We own it like we own the section of road we are using, or the air and water flowing through our bodies.

People who love money and hate government are as clueless as the fish that loves the worm and hates the hook.

We need to respect it more and desire it less. Like water, we need it, but we don't want to drown in it.