By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
June 18, 2026
The idea that modifying or replacing currency will solve problems of corrupted values, perverse incentives, destabilizing asymmetries of wealth and power and the civilizational psychosis of "growth of consumption and profits at any cost" is illusory.
An old friend summarized the mindset of much of the developed world wryly and succinctly: "We don't need the world, we only need money." In other words, we don't actually need real-world sources of life's essentials that are within our control or a functional biosphere because since we can buy everything we could possibly want or need with money.