Thomas More - extract from Utopia which hits home

"Though to speak plainly my real sentiments, I must freely own
that as long as there is any property, and while money is the
standard of all other things, I cannot think that a nation can be
governed either justly or happily: not justly, because the best
things will fall to the share of the worst men; nor happily,
because all things will be divided among a few (and even these are
not in all respects happy), the rest being left to be absolutely
miserable."

Heavy eh? This is what we got right now so why notm instead try a local exchange trading scheme (LETs): http://bkgfernando.googlepages.com/localexchangetradingsystem-lets