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Hey all you Hard-up Homies,
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Monday is Full Flower #Moonday. Time to cut up your credit cards, get outside under the moonlight, and dance in the falling cherry blossoms — a gift from nature for all to enjoy, regardless of what’s in your wallet.
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But if you don’t need money to enjoy the moon, you certainly don’t need the bank to smell the flowers.
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Don’t you just hate going to the bank? Every time you show up it’s like they’re doing you this huge favour. When really, we’re the ones who own them.
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And what do they give us in return for our money? [Perpetual war]([link removed]), [climate breakdown]([link removed]), and [raging inequality]([link removed]), all for 0.025% APR.
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Imagine the look on the teller’s face as you take all your money out, right in front of them. The way they’ll plead with you to stay, for it not to end like this.
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Imagine the relief when you wake up the next day to find that our hard-earned dollars and rupees and pesos are no longer funding war crimes or fossil fuels or another billionaire’s private jet.
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It’s a small act that punches well above its weight — a bold first step toward a new financial architecture.
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So here’s what you do:
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Vow this Full Flower Moonday to take the plunge. And before the next Moonday (June 14th), go to your bank and say you want out. Then [find a comfortable place]([link removed]) to put your dough — a co-operative or credit union in your city that makes you feel at ease.
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Just imagine thousands, millions — even a worldwide avalanche of a billion people — moving their money in a global bid to put Big Finance in its place.
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Is this a pipe dream? Or could we make it work? We the people need to put aside our qualms about dreaming big. To win the planetary endgame, we have to learn to pull off pie-in-the-sky tricks like this!
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For the Wild,
The Third Force
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[Article: And how do we flatten the money curve?]([link removed])
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[WE HAVE TO FLATTEN THE MONEY CURVE]([link removed])
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The virus at the heart of capitalism is money. The infection began the moment we replaced gift-giving and barter with a symbolic object: a shell, a coin, a paper note.
But how did we get from a seemingly harmless, necessary exchange to the endgame of financial speculation, of digital hyper-abstraction?
[And how do we flatten the money curve?]([link removed])
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