Money-as-Sunlight

Thought for the day

Money-as-energy is nothing new.

It is nowehere near as old as money-as-gold, or money-as-labour, or money-as-debt, but we’ve had it in addition to those, since we started to dig energy from the Earth.

Still, in whichever form, money remains something scarce, something to be coveted, something to earn, beg, borrow, or steal, to save for a rainy day.

But when we take energy from sunlight, converting that first to work, and then to money, it becomes something free, not so scarce.