Why the Money System Must Be Questioned

Money today is not serving humanity, it is enslaving us. Henry Ford once said: "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." Our current monetary system creates every single unit as a loan that must be repaid with interest. Because banks create the principal but never the interest, there is literally not enough money in physical or digital existence to repay all global debt. We are trapped in a financial musical chairs game where systemic bankruptcy is not a personal failure, but a mathematical certainty built into the very design of the currency. But the way money is created today is not a natural law. It is a design choice. And like any design choice, it can be questioned, challenged, and replaced.

The endless conflict between socialism and capitalism — and the authoritarian systems that rise in their wake, from fascism to theocracy — may not be a contest between two correct answers. It may be a symptom of a broken monetary foundation that neither ideology has dared to fix.

A majority of people understand that something must change, but do not agree on what would be better, which is why the failed status quo persists. Let us agree to one thing that offers progress for all views: Coming together to say what we have now is broken, and we need experimentation to find what alternatives actually work best, with all of the real-world factors demonstrated, including unintended consequences. AfterThis exists to unite everyone who sees the obstacle of fracturization, but is passionate enough about the fixing existing systemic flaws to demand something better: Organized, real-world tests of reformist monetary theories in countries, states, territories, counties, etc.; testing economic systems that have never been tried at scale.

A World Demanding Change

From Buenos Aires to Beirut, from Nairobi to Seoul, citizens are in the streets demanding that money serve people — not the other way around. This is not a fringe position. It is a global reckoning.

Twelve Systems Worth Testing

These are not utopian fantasies. Each of the following frameworks has a body of theory, a community of advocates, and at least some real-world precedent. What they lack is a fair, structured test. AfterThis proposes to change that.

1. Economic Democracy Act / Binary Economics
2. Greenback / Sovereign Money
3. Modern Monetary Theory
4. Gold / Metal Standard
5. Universal Basic Income
6. Bitcoin Standard

...and six more theories available on the full Reform Theories page.

Which Systems Should Be Tested First?

Your vote shapes the movement's priorities. Cast a validated vote to rank which of the twelve reform theories should be among the top five systems selected for real-world experimentation. One email address, one vote, one voice.