“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets … The most valuable ‘currency’ of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members.” W. Edwards Deming, “father of the third wave of the industrial revolution” “In the business world, the price of things is a more…

“Debt is an efficient tool. It ensures access to other peoples’ raw materials and infrastructure on the cheapest possible terms … The IMF cannot seem to understand that investing in … [a] healthy, well-fed, literate population … is the most intelligent economic choice a country can make.” Susan George “IMF…

“In our current money system, it is mathematically impossible for more than a minority of people to live in abundance, because the money creation process maintains an absolute rent extraction-based systemic scarcity. One man’s prosperity is another man’s poverty.” Charles Moore “ … the way in which the economy was…

“The financial system … has been turned over to … the Federal Reserve Board. The board administers the finance system by authority of … a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people’s money.”…

“In a world that worships work but has nothing to do for people, … the modern state could be interpreted as an employment agency with a gun to protect the fuel pump.” Ivan Illich “The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist — McDonald’s cannot…

Since nobody knows everything but everyone knows something … To explore root causes for the mess our world is in and to observe if you are ready for a paradigm shift from “Control” to “Empowerment,” I have been writing a series of articles I call “Hacking Mindsets.” As I connect…