Dedicated to improving the human condition - converting society from a monetary system to a resource based economy.

WHY WE ARE LEAVING THE MONETARY SYSTEM

As humans evolved, a primitive trade for goods and services evolved with us. This system has grown more complex and now the monetary system has reached a plateau, having achieved its maximum capability but with great deficiency. We can be grateful that it has served to take us this far, but this greed based system now corrupts humanities potential in undesirable ways and if we look upon our planet with honest intelligence, we must recognize that it's time to peacefully and intelligently move forward in a new way. It is time to transition from the monetary system to progress to our next stage of human evolution. Mankind will one day look back to our century as barbaric, inhumane and uncivilized. If you are blind to the problems (since we are a cultural ethnocentric product of this system) and why change is needed away from our current monetary system, here is a list for you to contemplate:

1) Every day, over 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds. Every year 15 million children die of hunger and 1.02 billion people across the world are hungry. In essence, hunger is the most extreme form of poverty, where individuals or families cannot afford to meet their most basic need for food. Even more are malnourished. 1

2) Our greed based health insurance system leaves millions uninsured and vulnerable to a life of poor health. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one's family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, Health care should be human right; however, now healthcare is being sold as goods, and the poor cannot afford to get treated when they are sick. Instead, insurance companies profit at the expense of those who cannot afford coverage and are neglected in our system which has failed to solve the problem of adequate health care distribution. 2

3) Greed and corruption persuade political leaders and Corporate CEO's to make choices against the better good of society to benefit a few greedy individuals. In addition to the harm done to individuals, often our environment is also destroyed because of monetary costs to do the right thing.

4) Greed is the basis of most crimes against each other. Those without education, food and shelter often have nothing to lose when turning to a life of crime as a course of least resistance. The United States' incarceration rate is, according to official reports, the highest in the world, at 737 persons imprisoned per 100,000 (as of 2005). A report released in 2008 indicates that in the United States more than 1 in 100 adults are now confined in an American jail or prison. 3

5) The purpose of education should be to develop every individual to their full potential unrestricted by monetary constraints. Education should be provided for every person to advance but instead often less fortunate students, especially in poor areas, cannot afford an education or are told they do not qualify for grants or scholarships. If a student is fortunate they can accept the financial burden of "aid" where their educational options are still often significantly reduced. Education is a place where individuals can develop according to their unique needs and potentialities. 4

6) Attempts to reduce the level of unemployment beyond the 'natural rate of unemployment' generally fail, resulting only in less output and more inflation. Individuals must cater to large corporations, while our labor force suffers a 15% unemployment rate in some states. Americans find themselves unemployed or over worked meeting employer demands in fear of losing their jobs. Many state laws are inadequate to protect basic human rights and employers offer reduced breaks, benefits, and still demand overtime by those employed but maintain the ability to fire employees 'at will' in many states adding unnecessary stress to both employed and unemployed alike. 5

7) As an example of how poorly the monetary system distributes resources, food waste in the United States has increased by about 50 percent since 1974 to about 1,400 calories per person per day in 2003. On average, American households waste 14 percent of their food purchases. Fifteen percent of that includes products still within their expiration date but never opened. An average family of four currently tosses out $590 per year, just in meat, fruits, vegetables and grain products. In America alone, household food waste adds up to $43 billion, making it a serious economic problem. Despite our economic meltdown, food is wasted in the U.S. at a much higher rate, even while people are starving in other areas of the world with more than 29 million tons of food waste each year, or enough to fill the Rose Bowl every three days. 6

8) Valuable services that help the nation's most vulnerable are being frozen or even cut from State Budgets as demand for services increases and jobs vanish. States are slashing shortfall budgets on the backs of students, seniors and disabled people because they are the least organized and are poor. Banks are collecting huge fees, not just from individuals, but from municipalities who are forced to cut important civil services, such as education, libraries, health services and from other charities.8

9) An estimated 100 million people worldwide are homeless. Homelessness is at a high due to economic manipulations that has left a large number of homeowners upside down in their home value. About 3.5 million US residents (about 1% of the population), including 1.35 million children, have been homeless for a significant period of time. Over 37,000 homeless individuals (including 16,000 children) stay in shelters in New York alone every night. 9

10) Drug use shows the dissatisfaction of citizens, unable to find pleasure and happiness in this way of life and instead turn to escape by using drugs. Society locks them up in prison for their misery without addressing the underlining issues. Additionally, more Americans report being depressed. About 6.6 percent, about 14 million Americans had a serious depressive episode during the year, while more than 16 percent, about 35 million, experienced such depression over their lifetimes.

11) A society is only as productive as all of its citizens collectively. If all Americans were productive while working five days a week they would produce twice what they need. If Americans were to restructure to a respectable standard of living at two and one-half days work per week, their production could be equal with any other society in the monetary system. There are approximately 115 million employed U.S. citizens and over 32% of all labor is wasted in non-productive jobs; in money service and with red tape insurance companies. The monetary system has failed to eliminate unnecessary labor, maximize automation and reduce the work hours in a day. When money service is removed from the system, Humans no longer waste their lives managing money, and the same labor effort will produce useful products and services that truly help mankind with less wasted work hours while reducing the demand for labor. Furthermore, increased automation will further reduce labor for the betterment of society. 10

12) The monetary system has failed to address serious planetary environmental concerns, where greed based monetary decisions fail to protect life on our planet, as cities suffer disease from poor air and water quality.

13) The NAS formula places the poverty rate for older Americans at 18.6 percent, or 6.8 million people. These senior citizens scrape by, often lacking a nutritious diet, unable to afford adequate health care, some without even a decent roof over their heads. 11

In summary, the monetary system has failed to provide adequate food, health care, shelter, and labor for good causes in society. Furthermore, the greed based monetary system is poorly equipped to solve these greed based problems since solving these problems will not monetarily profit anyone. However, until all these are provided to every person, we as a species are still uncivilized. Those who have riches in our monetary system, may find it hard to understand this point, however those who have not, know it all too well. Our system is destined to change. Help us with the transition to a resource based economy, peacefully, with tolerance and as a model for the future humanity of mankind. We are intelligent enough to manage our resources and maximize our usefulness in labor, we will refactor society for the betterment of all mankind. Join with us as we create Atlas City.

We are facing these problems and finding new solutions to progress to a new state of existence where all humankind have a more intelligent existence with their needs being met, and we therefore wish to usher in the new era, bidding farewell to our antiquated monetary system. We thank it for all it has done, and then we say good bye and part ways. We are looking for great people who would enjoy pioneering this effort who wish to participate in this marvelous opportunity to improve our human condition.