Recent comments by Atul Bhardwaj

• The Price of Inequality

  The solution to the global environmental problems does not lie in increasing growth and boosting GDP figures. The answer is slow down. Let computers and individual tablets take all the load that human beings are unable to handle. Let there be no paper money. All money transactions happen through tablets/smarts phones. Taxes are deducted the moment you make a transaction on your mobile phone. No CAs required, no banks required to store cash. All your documents (verified) are on a tablet o prove your identity to anyone, the government interacts with you through your tablet (that is specific to you). No paper, no theft, no clerical work. 90% of the so-called WORK will get eliminated. People will have more time to indulge in creating and inventing. Less travel on roads - things will be smooth. All national wealth will be known to all - no room to hide, total transparency. the controls will not be in American hands. No drug money, no illegal trade, no body will be able to transact without his /her specific tablet, therefore, nobody will be ever able to hide. It may take us towards a perfect world. It may even elimntae the ugly dist

• Central Bankers under Siege

  Most of the economists willingly want to remain trapped in the vicious cycle of inflation and interest rates. They just don't want to think of a world beyond these twin parameters.
  There is far too much of inequality in the world and the root cause of it is money and its manipulation. Just as the civilization advanced from pre-modernity to modernity through what Nietzsche identified as the death of god, similarly, to move into post modernity the civilization would have to kill something. The death of money and its progeny, the banking system seems to be the only solution to usher in a more egalitarian era.