THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

The four scenarios revisited
‘The business of the future is to be dangerous.' – Alfred Whitehead
In Chapter 4, four different scenarios were summarised in the
figure 9. 11
Corporate Millennium Sustainable
Abundance
Hell on Earth Careful Communities
We can now better understand how Sustainable Abundance relates
to the other three scenarios. The Corporate Millennium is the result of
what the Taoists would call an 'excess Yang' deviation from
Sustainable Abundance, where Yang-driven businesses and
currencies take over all other aspects of society as the old order
dissolves. It would tend to occur if the benefits of information and
money waves were monopolised by the corporate sector. This is most
likely to happen if monetary and political authorities were to
suppress the small-scale local currencies, while remaining unable or
unwilling to tackle the corporate-issued currencies. In contrast,
Careful Communities is an 'excess Yin' deviation where concerns
about community cohesion have taken over when a monetary
meltdown triggers widespread socio-economic disarray. Finally, Hell
on Earth occurs when no faction in society fills in the power vacuum
left after a monetary crash.
Alvin Toffler claimed: 'What appears to be emerging is neither a
corporate dominated future nor a global government, but a far more
complex system ... We are moving toward a world system composed
of units densely interrelated like the neurons in a brain rather than
organised like the departments of a bureaucracy.'