The future of money

 In simple terms, it is the most basic unit sanctioned by a nation to perform its most rudimentary trade necessity of purchase and sales of which modern societies, nations and economies are built on. It’s true that all the power of modern nations which follow democracy gets its rudimentary power to the well-being of its citizens by the meaning derived from its currency. Money in its universal sense takes care of every need of humans and gets solutions to every human problem. The origin of modern money as paper currency credits to China which imposed paper currency in its Kingdom in the era of its kings and found takers when the world shifted to new radical free-market economies and stands sole as the most basic unit of return for human labour and effort and even sound like bonded labour or slavery with no alternative return to human effort in modern times.

With the free flow of money in economies and nations like salt, it has in itself brought a catastrophe of fuelling human greed and ushered products which could be bought to the whims and fancies of our mind for which man endeavours with his life. It’s as if all the wants and needs of humans end in supermarkets and automobile showrooms and with the eradication of culture with modernism and post-modernism money has become the prime inspiration for our life decisions.

There are two great challenges that the world faces right now and one is garbage created from supermarket products along with chemical pollutants from factories which is visible in every nook and corner in our irresponsible cities and spreading to uneducated towns and villages. We should admit that the use of money is not child’s play and be given utmost importance like the honour of a Japanese Samurai for our cultural survival if one is to use currency as money in the policy-making of nations and to be part of its spending trends when buying a product has to be valued on its impact on culture and eco-system and not in trades and stocks of the nation. The pride of the nation should be on its responsibility towards its nature wherein we decide how we give it to our next generations and mind you te gen-nex will be like the Earth you treat now; either rubbish or heaven.

The second challenge is of motivation; we are being blind to our families, their virtues, our culture and innumerable things that make us human and sacrifice each and everything of our identities for a name in the payroll of some company for comforts and luxuries in life aided by banks as loans forgetting values, tradition and love. The problem is nothing makes us obedient as money does. Nobody cares for the old and their wisdom anymore, people walk over religion and matters of the spirit, godmen and god for fortunes or Netflix. Children around the globe have become like Hyenas for gadgets and gizmos when the lesson of gratitude and contentment lay in temples and churches. Children are being raised as good returns for money for god knows who in a system from our educational institutions forgetting values, customs, beliefs and traditions. We consciously or blindly follow success and success only in vain and mundane pursuits in dangerous walks when the whole point of human life is different and in its pursuit we forget contentment from our lives which lay in peace of nations and not in rivalry.

We are no longer motivated by religious talks, books or the old sayings of the wise Rabbis or Brahmins; we don’t find our imagination running through the words of the beauty of a Rabindranath Tagore or a Shakespeare or seeing the world as they saw it in their beauty. We don’t find it necessary to live in a Gandhian dream of Khadi or Swaraj. The anthem of modernity has become achievement and achievement only at whatever cost it takes for not my survival but for my sole opulence which in the end is going to be reduced to ashes or to six feet of Earth. We are cut off from a real society of nature and its elements with the blind society that we ourselves have created of disruption and destruction. We don’t know what protocols there are in our lives, we don’t feel necessary to respect our parents, elders, gods or the learned in the society. The only protocol we follow with our lives is of a national doctrine of money which we coarsely define as the right of every citizen. Now, what makes you a citizen? Your morals in the society or the power you enjoy amongst thieves.