Hey Joe, good you are making us think about it, thanks for posting.

I agree we need to sort out money, but not that it is stored work. To me it is stored energy, whereas work is the process of creation, which always requires energy.

Nature does the work of creation with energy, passing it around in the form of nutrients from trees.

We need to do the same with money, it seems to me, money is our human version of the nutrients of trees, and we now have our human version of leaves (Solar panels), which absorb the energy of sunlight, producing energy, every Joule of which can do valuable work.

The controversial part of this is that to accurately and honestly represent those Joules of energy received from sunlight, we need to generate money to represent them, in terms of Joules per token of money.

Since the energy of those Joules is for free, then the money created to represent them also has to be issued for free.

That would be us operating the same way as nature, therefore not polluting.

That would be what we need to do to remove our pollutive dependence on the things created by nature by the energy of sunlight.

That might sound far fetched, but how else can inflation end?

The truth is it will never end, and free money will never stop being given.

At some point it will be realised that it makes perfect sense to have an energy standard for money, rather than the gold / capital standard it once had.