Our money system is standardized world-wide. When we do things with our money that are less than sublime, others involved in our rhythm of give-and-take can and will suffer too, we are learning.
On the home front, if one partner buys a fancy new car and the family can’t afford it, the whole family might have to live on macaroni and cheese for a while if they are going to have a good financial balance.
Maybe in the balance of life, our money system also needs something to balance it?
I’m going to compare our current money system to being a “single father”.
Money spawns all these different things just by the ways we use it, and it takes care of the kids as a result, but there are some things that are missing without a “wife’s” interaction with it.
Money, being “man-made” (originally started by men, I’m guessing, since they were the ones who probably created it and handled it to start with), it tends to favor men’s priorities and things they are especially good at, in life.
That’s good.
Men traditionally “brought home the bacon” (especially if they raised livestock!). The system depended on men making most of the money in order to support their families, especially since earlier in our country’s history, most women had very large families and didn’t also work outside the home.
Hence, favor was given to men in wages (and often still is) and was programmed to appreciate in line with what were traditionally seen as being men’s attributes, things that are necessary for jobs, such as: the higher your skill level, the more you are paid.
Then women entered the job market. In order to compete in that market, we had to play by the men’s rules. That’s the way it’s set up.
World-wide, there’s this underlying value system that says a woman is fundamentally worth less than a man–am I understanding this correctly? Or is this just how it feels?
(There could be something I am not understanding just because I’m still single and don’t usually have the input of money-smart men around me.)
But you know it’s true. If some countries need to reduce their population, it’s the girl babies who are thrown away or killed. If a girl baby is born, there is dismay, while high congratulations are given to couples when a boy baby is born.
May I suggest that our money system reflects the belief that women, and anything women do, is worth less than a man or what a man does.
Until we fully value women and incorporate what is seen as a typical woman’s values into the financial system, I think it’s possible our money system may continue to cycle wildly out of control at times, if all it has is its “single parent” rhythm that tries to cover all the needs in society with one method.
Everything in life needs a balance. Money is no exception.
The Volunteer Club Currency System
What if we could give our money system a “wife”? One that incorporated female attributes into its reward system so that we had a currency with built-in rewards that favored a woman’s typical functions in society?
Just like in marriage, such a system could provide balance during times of normal monetary stress. When the regular money system ebbed in value, the “female” currency could flow.
And I believe, from hearing people talk about the Great Depression, that elements of my idea were present in the way Great Depression survivors were able to manage. This would just organize things ahead of time so everyone could benefit, through a prepared networking system.
See my “Volunteer Club Currency” page for an idea of a way to balance our money system to help the economy.
