The human economy is not founded upon, gold, nor faith, but upon addiction.
If we can focus on qualia instead of matter, and on Little Dopamine instead of Big Dopamine, we may be able to rewire ourselves and our communities.
The issue here is money and the status we attribute to it. Bluntly, there are other forms of wealth, and other types of status.
Obviously, there is beauty, and brains, creativity, humor, service, grace, and the list goes on – Basically, the impetus for spending our lives working doesn’t have to be money.