It is not often I get a chance to introduce a small amount of light-hearted
comment to our forum, but your recent comments about bankers enables me to
forward to you all an apparently true story about a credit card company who
carried on billing a customer after she had died because she had not
closed her credit account. The attachment covers a conversation between her
nephew and the company when he pointed out to them the futility of their
efforts to screw arrears payments from someone who no longer existed.
I can't help but think it
has a pointed lesson to us all about the present monetary credit system. I
hope you all enjoy it.
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I was thinking rather of putting together a demonstration game that
would teach Georgists how important the monetary system is in influencing
what happens in the economy, and remind Social Crediters that, whether in
rents and site values, or in the issue of a monetary medium, "the private
monopolization of publicly created values" is an matter that needs to be
controlled in the interest of the community.
I once revised the rules of Monopoly so that the Banker was an actual
banker, charging interest on loans, and playing favorites among the
players to help one and hinder another, all with the idea of becoming the
monopolist himself. It was the most depressing game I have ever played, as
the economy spiralled into depression, with cut price property sales, and
everything becoming controlled by the bank.
What was most interesting, when I tried this on another occasion with
a group from Mensa, was the gleam of revelation that spread on people's
faces when they completed the accounting form that created a bank loan,
and learned for the first time how money came into being!
Martin Hattersley, 1970 10123 99St.,
EDMONTON AB
Canada T5J 3H1
Phone (780)423-4081:Fax (780)425-5247
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Questions for Ed Dodson
Martin Hattersley wrote
"George, of course, did not
go into the money system in any depth at all. But
the game of
"Monopoly" (founded on an earlier "Landlord Game" designed to
illustrate Georgist principles), certainly illustrates the tendency
of the
rental of sites to concentrate ownership and bankrupt the
majority of
society. Varying the rules so that the Bank is paid
rent by those who land
on mortgaged property might make the bridge
we need between George and
Douglas."
Mr. Hattersley, I certainly have wanted to see a bridge between
Social Credit and Georgist thought, and I'm happy to see an advocate of
Social Credit suggest where that bridge may be situated. I
wonder if you could clarify and expand upon the underlined portion
of your comments above. Are you possibly suggesting some kind of
cooperative land banking such as has been proposed by Shann Turnbull at
COG?
Regards
Alan Avans
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