Is regenerative agriculture enough to fix America’s broken rural economies? Can we simply soil health our way out of the mess that the has been created by inflation and the printing of money? Joel Hollingsworth says “no.” While soil health and regenerative agriculture are crucial without sound money we are going to struggle to get meaningful traction in bringing back rural America.
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6 comments on “Sound Money’s Role in Fixing America’s Broken Rural Economies (WCP 416)”
This was a tough one on me. I know bitcoin is all the rage – the latest get rich quick Ponzi scheme that is now even being embraced by the us government. I just can’t get on board.
If I quit using federal reserve notes, it has to be something that is MORE reliable, not LESS reliable than what I currently use. Bitcoin is literally thin air. I don’t trust electronic devices or money transfers. Currently, I use cash for everything, except occasionally I purchase a USPS money order to send through the mail if the amount is large. Usually I just send cash through the mail, like the two orders I mailed on Friday.
A glitch in the system, and electronic binary blips can be gone.
Electronic money is playing into what the Bible prophesies will happen – people won’t be allowed to buy or sell unless they have the mark. It also facilitates, before that actually happens, government control and dictating of what people can purchase, who can do what would their money (like we saw during the Canadian trucker protest), and us all being tracked.
Then there is morality of bitcoin, from a biblical perspective. Personally, I don’t believe the stock market is a moral thing. People are hasting to be rich instead of working for what they earn. I have said for years that it is rich men’s gambling. Poorer people (who don’t have a problem with gambling) buy lottery tickets. I wonder how many people who supposedly disagree with the pharmaceutical industry made lots of money from pharmaceutical “investments” (gambling) during covid.
And bitcoin is along the same lines. Getting in early, trying to get money not earned. Some might say they do it to maintain the value, not to gamble or acquire money they didn’t earn. I’m not convinced. It’s a Ponzi scheme started with computer entries.
I have heard lots of talks about bitcoin. I am still not convinced. It is going to come back to bite the people who walk into it so gullibly. It is one more step in helping to set things up for the one world government and the new world order.
Joel here,
I find it perfectly understandable that you see Bitcoin in this way, it is easy to misunderstand at first. Let me start here- your physical cash money isn’t really money at all. Even if you store it under your pillow it will erode to being worthless because it is fiat (ie value by decree). By participating in fiat you are enriching those who run that fiat system and who print that money at zero marginal cost (remember Kashkari saying they can’t run out of money?). This is the root of the US’s wealth with first the Euro Dollar system of robbing from foreigners through hidden usury, and now us, its own citizens.
Every evil thing done in the world by the US empire: wars, coups, assassinations, economic extraction, gender inversion, abortion, environmental destruction, COVID & vaccine tyranny, etc is something funded by our use of those dollars. By holding value in dollars for them to rob from us through inflation and money printing, we are funding their power to commit heinous immorality.
The cyberpunk attempt at creating true free market money was from the beginning a desire to be free from that and to answer a simple question:
How do we create a money that no one profits from controlling and thus has to be trusted to do so morally?
Because it is like the “Tolkien ring of power”, no one but God can be trusted to control the definition of value, it is like an integration of energy and word.. ie logos.. and all of fiat is a Tower of Babel of us trying to steal that for humanist ends which is where you see the malthusian worship of death rather than a true worship of God and life in our current times.
I can explain more about Bitcoin and why it actually is more secure than dollars and not just vapor like it looks like, but the first part here is important- in a globally connected world where gold has failed / been captured, we need a return to a true honest money that can resist the tyranny of our age and give us shelter from the coming CBDC’s
Bitcoin may look like what you fear, but it actually is quite the opposite. If you are up for dialoguing about it I’m happy to engage here and chat
Deanne!
Thanks for your comment. I understand your concern. Regarding the biblical morality of earning without working does the parable the talents challenge that thinking? The one who didn’t produce a return is the wicked servant. The ones who used the masters talents to invest and generate a 100% return on asset are the ones who are praised. Just a thought. Again, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Grace and peace,
Clay
“Conventional”
The use of the word is varied. I notice this when people are talking about education as well. What are “conventional” schools? Some people use the word for modern-day schools. Other use the word “traditional” for what we now have when I would say there is nothing “traditional” about modern education. But I’m not sure “conventional” is a good word for modern education either.
The word is problematic because people use it in different ways. It’s true in education and is also apparently true in farming. To me “conventional” in the agricultural space is what the majority of people are doing – chemical fertilizers, nonorganic seeds, etc.
It seems like it might be best to find other words that more specifically describe practices since the same word is being used for opposite things.
Remind me in what context I used the term conventional?
This may have been from another episode where we talked about convention corn being Non-GMO. When I here conventional I think the way things are done most often. Even the GMO Corn is the norm it isn’t conventional.