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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2 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.
“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.