The Future of Finance (video Dr Jem Bendell)

Could it be that the system for how we exchange our things and our time have broken down?

Could it be that our mechanisms of exchange – our money system – is restricting us from working together for mutual gain?

In this video, Dr Jem Bendell will show how the current monetary system massively undermines our ability to work on common problems:

Jem Bendell is a professor and the owner-director of Lifeworth Consulting, providing solutions for systemic change towards sustainable development. For 16 years he has consulted with business, United Nations (UN) and civil society, while writing over 100 publications on the social responsibility of organisations.

[sws_blockquote align=”” alignment=”alignleft” cite=”” quotestyles=”style02″] The mainstream debate on financial crisis ignores an underlying cause.

That cause also underlies our crisis with sovereign debt, environmental destruction, spiralling inequality and mass unemployment.

That cause is our monetary system – a system where banks create money out of nothing for profit. [/sws_blockquote]