Jesus wasn't wrong about evil. Money is just a technology that makes commerce more efficient. It really isn't power. Hell, it's just conjured out of nothing. Power isn't. However, it's utility in commerce makes it influential on people, and that makes it convenient for those interested in power over people.

The fact is that you can live just fine without money. It's less fine than can be achieved with money, but many things which are undertaken for money can be eschewed altogether when you do a cost benefit analysis. As a result I live on very little money, and optimize my quality of life.

Today we have a plethora of technologies that enable individuals to produce goods and services directly, and after an initial investment in necessary tooling money is not required to produce those goods and services. Electrical power, food, water, household goods, and community services such as police, fire, and health care (and much, much more) are all either readily producible by individuals or neighbors, or about to be.

Folks interested in optimizing their quality of life should be considering the costs and benefits of attaining to desired goods and services through the mechanisms available, and not simply focus on earning money to pay others to provide them. It's important to keep in mind that the effort to earn money is immediately parasitized approximately 50% through taxation. That makes new tech to provide your own goods far more potentially profitable, since no taxable event occurs when you make your own light switch, rather than work for taxable wages, drive to the hardware store using taxed fuel in a government registered car, on taxpayer funded roads, where you pay the half of your wages left over from tax for a switch that is subject to sales tax, and approximately 90% of the price is wages, shipping, and profit for producers.

Aquaponics not only enables bespoke foods to be availabel fresh to the consumer, also the producer, but waste recycling, and avoidance of chemical pollution and other undesirable effects of industrial agriculture. When considering costs and benefits in a comprehensive way, even free food from industrial agriculture costs far more than organic food grown in house. Just medical issues alone ensure this is so, as pesticides and various endocrine disrupting chemicals in food or it's packaging have caused testosterone in the West to crash in the last few decades, and dramatically impacted not only the health of affected individuals, but their society (not to mention how these pollutants impact natural ecosystems) because testosterone affects how people act, vote, and live.

As time goes on, and the advance of technology increases faster and faster across all industries, the advantages of individual production are going to become more and more apparent, even for those less able to grasp complex systems. Less and less power will be wielded via the weapon of money, and higher quality of life will be passed on to our posterity, meaning more freedom and power over themselves.

I reckon the only thing that can actually prevent the inevitable collapse of institutional power is our extinction. We will be free, and the stars are at our feet.

Thanks!