People As Dollars

(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.)

An ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure, right?

Somehow, these people below weren't even dollars, until they finally became enough dollars to catch the World Bank's attention?

That's not an effective survival strategy.

It seems that we need to ditch our bank-oriented approach, and revert to both banks and currency as simple methods serving a nation-oriented approach - or eventually a species-oriented approach. Instead of we the people serving our banking tools.

World Bank sees possible Ebola hit in billions of dollars

How many lives have misguided World Bank policies wasted, these last 70 years?

What is it about current greed vs future resiliency that the World Bank has totally failed to understand, has forgotten, or simply chose to ignore?

What would Ben Franklin say to us now? That he's ashamed of our short sightedness?