UBI, Degrowth and Putting Out the Fire Consuming Our House

Ray Katz
4 min readSep 5, 2022

What we should be doing instead of what we’re doing.

Photo by Andrew Thornebrooke on Unsplash

Money is a construct. Right now, it’s being used as a tool enabling a small number of ultra-rich people to rip off and control most of the people on Earth. Others produce, and they take.

As if this wasn’t bad enough, these same rich people control governments by financing politicians (I call this bribery) and ensuring that the entire planet is devastated by climate abuse — for personal profit.

For money.

I say, screw that. The current plan is, in effect, let’s suffer and die and kill the planet so our children have no future because that’s the way things are done. Let’s say no to this. Instead, we need to do things differently.

Are we together on this?

Let’s Create What We Need, and Not A Bunch of Crap

We need to produce food, clothing, shelter, medicine, clean energy and culture (creativity and storytelling in all its forms are essential for human thriving), and not much else. Probably 90% of what we produce is shit that wastes our time (and therefore our lives) and fouls up our environment. That 90% needs to be cleaned up after it’s discarded. In effect, 90% of what we produce creates negative value —…

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Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org