Technology, Money, and Work: the Ecological Nexus

In this article, we argue that as humanity falls deeper into the Capitalocene, the consequences of our misunderstanding of ourselves as humans and our place on earth become ever more pronounced. It would seem that only a true change in telos from an economics that serves the private interest of financial rent to one that serves humanity would be adequate to meet the challenges currently facing humanity. Ridding our thinking of the notions of humans as individualistic by nature, and economies as only driven by the motive of individual monetary accumulation, would allow us not only to understand the true social natures of work, technology, and money, but also to envision public policy proposals that need not involve either trillions of dollars in spending, nor tearing the whole system down, but rather the transformation of the mission of our current economic institutions, guided by more realistic thinking than that currently offered by the mainstream.