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So cleansed of the evil of its origins, money becomes a very powerful organizational tool (#4, #5). It then helps people to make, and abide by, agreements far more efficiently than is possible with legal systems paid for by cheating the population by creating money. All the powers of modern information technology are available to help people to keep to their commitments to each other.
By distributing all the incomes of companies and other collectivities quasi-continuously directly to their real living members, doorway deductions at source for institutional managers and official freeloaders are eliminated (#4.6). Enabling living people to contribute as they please to the collectivities that provide services, including those now called 'public', makes it possible to organize all services which people do for each other on the basis of reciprocal voluntary control - as in a family or tribe (#4.7).
Such distributions and contributions are usually fractions of earnings: each member of the economy gains or loses together with all the others. It is thus in people's obvious interest to be honest and friendly with each other. Without the injustice of money creation and the monopoly to torture, murder, imprison called 'justice' that it pays for, a society becomes very strong. There is no need for people to hate managers who do all they can for them when people can ensure that their managers never get more than they deserve. Trashing nature to raise profits no longer makes sense. Benefits derived from nature are in kind. People become wealthier in the beauty, diversity and health of their surroundings rather than in numbers in quarterly earnings reports. They increase the quality of their own lives by increasing that of other species (#5.4 - #5.5).
Every non-monetary family and tribe needs procedures for resolving disputes and restoring reasonably fair balances between its members. Non-monetary justice is not coded in letters that kill by programming people like automatons. Custom is a continually renewed living tissue of agreements that reinforces and preserves the life of the community. Each member takes part in weaving this network of agreements, and has a place in it. Such mutual regulation and definition of functions can be formalized and computerized to enable any community to retain a continuously renewed dynamic balance between its members (#4.8, #4.9, #5.6).
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