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What If Money Expired? (www.noemamag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza to c/humanities

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[–] liv 1 points 1 year ago

Yes this was pretty telling:

Instead, an individual’s economic success would be tied directly to the quality of their work and the strength of their ideas. Gesell imagined this would create a Darwinian natural selection in the economy: “Free competition would favor the efficient and lead to their increased propagation.”