The document discusses rethinking concepts of money and currency. It proposes that money should be viewed as a medium of exchange for tradable wealth within an economy, and currency as a language to enable the flow of resources within ecological systems. Wealth is described as encompassing relationships, health, knowledge and productive capacity beyond just tradable goods and services. The document also traces the evolution of writing and currency as ways to encode and exchange concepts and wealth over distances and time.

1. Rethinking Money

2. Goal: a brain flip in 30 minutes The Flip Money as medium of exchange in an economy of tradable wealth Currency as the language of flow in an ecology of healthy systems

3. Rethinking Geometry?

4. Parallel lines never meet: Parallel lines always meet: Axioms

5. What is wealth?

6. Levels of Wealth friendship, love, beauty, freedom, civility, culture Acknowledgeable Measurable health, diversity, education, attention, strength, vitality, productive capacity Tradable resources, goods, services, time

7. relationships between systems Acknowledgeable Measurable Systemics of Wealth properties of systems as a whole components, of systems (inputs & outputs)‏ Tradable

8. What is wealth? Systemic well-being at all levels

9. What is money?

12. Inputs Outputs Flow Flow Patterns

13. Currencies Regional Food Pleasure Rating

14. What is currency? Information tokens that help us see and interact with flows

15. Currencies LETS Time Dollars eBay Points Airline miles Buy 10 get 1 free card USDA Organic Grades: A,B,C,D,F Curitiba Trash Tokens Carbon Credits Berkshares Zagat’s Rating University Degree (PhD, MS, BS)‏ $ Credit Hours Postage Stamps Cupons

16. The Flip Currency as the language of flow in an ecology of healthy systems