1. 2 Stories of Money A presentation given by Robin Upton. 2008-08-18 Available from http://www.altruists.org/downloads http://www.altruists.org/downloads Attribution – NonCommercial - ShareAlike www.altruists.org V1.2 A Brief History of Plutocracy

2. The Public Story of Money = measure of productivity = independent of political/legal systems = medium of exchange = safe store of value Private un tracting tribute complicity with plutocracy timately connected to The modern money system is shrouded in misinformation. The stories begin...

3. The Stories Begin... Primeval Growing Population The Tribe Food Violence Orders Money Labour Isolated Hunter Gatherers

4. Primeval Growing Population. 10,000 B.C. Agriculture Inter-tribe Conflicts, First Resource Shortages The Rest Warriors

5. 10,000 B.C. Agriculture. 9999 ½ B.C. Rules & Rulers Artisans Agriculture => Settlements=> Many more objects

6. 9,999 ½ B.C. Rules & Rulers Local Currencies Rulers Effective Food Storage needs Rules

7. Local Currencies Forced Standardisation Standardised artefacts embody ‘Community Good Will’ Larger communities ( >150 people )‏ Plutocracy can emerge as Rich are materially separated from Poor

8. Forced Standardisation. 1694 Bank Of England, Ltd. Acceptability for Royal Taxes defines ‘Good money’ Royal Goldsmiths

9. 1694 Bank Of England, Ltd.. War Management as Business Legalisation of Fractional Reserve System Private Credit Monopoly “The borrower is slave to the lender.” Class of International Central Bankers emerges... The single most important step in the formation of plutocracy, omitted from most standard histories.

10. ≥C18 th War Management as Business C19 th Rise of Corporations warring governments must agree to repay their enemies' loans... So whoever 'won', managed wars were lucrative for inter-national financiers. When borrowing money to raise armies, International Financiers/Arms Dealers Divide & Conquer...

11. C19 th Rise Of Corporations Mass Compulsion Schooling 1819: Corporate Charters 'Inviolable' (US)‏ 1886: Doctrine of 'Legal Personhood’ (US)‏ 1898-1904: 1,800 Corporations merged into 157 (US)‏ 1855: Limitation of 'Legal Liability' (UK)‏ 1844: Easy creation of 'Corporations' (UK)‏ Corporations start using citizens' rights against them... http://www.celdf.org

12. C20 th Mass Compulsion Schooling Abstraction www.altruists.org/355 = Dumbing Down by Corporations & Governments Loyalty to Money trumpeted over other value sets “Economic Literacy” Citizenship History ‘Rationality = Self-Interest’

13. Commodity Money Increasing Abstraction Globalisation Fiat Money Precious Metal Coins Locally Made Artefacts Unique, Personal Gift / IOU Digital Data 01001 1971: US Abandons of The Gold Standard Financial Vehicles

14. “Globalisation” Politicians rubber stamp a Supra-national Financial Monoculture Invisible Hand = Universal Self-Interest Divide & Conquer Plutocracy – 21 st Century Style MAI,NAFTA,WTO,GATT,IMF,FTAA... www.anti-globalisation.com

15. Two Stories of Money Politicians Enforcers Atomised Consumers Corporations c Media-Academic-Terrorist- Military-Industrial-Complex C21 st Institutionalised Plutocracy C21 st Institutionalised Plutocracy

16. The Public Story of Money = measure of productivity = independent of political/legal systems = medium of exchange = safe store of value Private un tracting tribute complicity with plutocracy timately connected to The modern money system is shrouded in misinformation. As this falls away, people are realising the system’s injustice. What to Do...?

17. What to do... ? Don’t fight the beast... Just stop feeding it! www.altruists.org/giveaway Prepare for the coming collapse by avoiding use of money.