This is a question that should be at the heart of today’s agenda: “What is the purpose of money? Indeed, while the latter brings concrete benefits, it also has its downside…

Tout d’abord, quand on se demande à quoi sert l’argent, on se rend vite compte d’une chose. De toute évidence, il ne peut pas être considéré comme un simple moyen. Indeed, it is the very purpose of all businesses and many people: to make money.

Thus, money is the means of access to everything. In fact, for every human being, it is a vital element. Therefore, it is not a simple tool that is “neutral” in nature ⁽¹⁾.

Moreover, by its mere existence it exceeds any other element, even life. Indeed, it is a necessary prerequisite for living (buying food, housing, etc.).

In the first place, one’s quality of life is proportional to the amount of money one has accumulated. As a result, it encourages and rewards individualism.

Moreover, according to several experimental studies, money reduces altruism, ethical values and social contact.

In addition, researchers believe that money has the effect of making people self-centred. And therefore to make him more individualistic, thus reducing his behaviour to help others ⁽²⁾.

Especially since money circulates like communicating vessels: in order to gain money, it is necessary for others to lose money. In other words, increasing one’s quality of life reduces that of others.

Money makes it possible to invest, and therefore to earn even more money. On the other hand, the less money you have, the less you can earn ⁽³⁾.

First, to be sustainable, any monetary system requires a high level of human activity. Moreover, on a permanent basis (to generate jobs, salaries, survival from competition, etc.). Not to mention that it requires an indiscriminate waste of our resources, leads to massive pollution and an increase in waste. Finally, it leads to a dangerous and inappropriate organisation ⁽⁴⁾.

Moreover, money is a driver of individualism and generalised competition ⁽⁵⁾. On the other hand, it is an element of deep social imbalance, a means of corruption, a weapon of domination. Finally, it has the power to more or less control us ⁽⁶⁾.

As a result, the monetary system is now showing its limits, which make it impossible to make major changes without “destabilising finance”. ⁽⁷⁾.

We have the feeling that money is a tool to be handled well.

Yet money shapes society, regardless of how we use it. Indeed, it imposes its own laws and its own foundations.

Firstly, it is impossible to live without it. Secondly, society is only thriving on the condition that it makes sustained profits at the expense of our environment. Finally, it puts all companies and nations in a permanent commercial war.

However, most of the abuses we experience would not exist without it.

But what drifts are we talking about?

To begin with, money has been around for over 2,700 years ⁽⁸⁾. Thus, there are many thought processes associated with money that have shaped our economic, social, cultural and intellectual development. Therefore, it naturally interferes with our decision making.
But when we ask the question “What is the use of money today?”, what do we see in the world?

When we ask ourselves what money is used for in the world, we see that it undergoes a series of crises. Indeed, the list is long: natural resource crisis ⁽⁹⁾, environmental crisis ⁽¹⁰⁾, economic crisis, financial crisis ⁽¹¹⁾, social crisis, health crisis ⁽¹²⁾. Moreover, against a backdrop of widening disparities ⁽¹³⁾.

The answer to the question “What is the purpose of money?

All the more, the results provided by the numerous data available speak for themselves.

The use of money (in one form or another) as a medium of exchange is harmful to the planet and its inhabitants.

Firstly, its central use often prevents us from imagining a world where it does not exist ⁽¹⁴⁾. However, while its disappearance may seem inconceivable, technically it is not today.

Indeed, money is a convention that must be questioned in view of the “drifts” caused by its use.

Moreover, there is no need to have money to cultivate, build, repair, heal or teach. Similarly, you don’t need money to find a fair, sensible and effective organisation.

The advantages of living without money are numerous (to be discovered in the Grand Projet)!

To conclude, today the technological progress of humanity allows usto free ourselves from it. Therefore, it is up to usto change,to take our futurein hand.