1 & i

Is value a number on a coin? Or is it how a person values that coin? For some time now, my mind ripples unnecessarily floating afar the idea of how one cent relates to me.

From antiquity we dig the earth, bring out from within many kinds of minerals. Crush burn and hammer them to make a happy go round and press a hot plate to inscribe a sign. Proudly naming it and even labeling it a value for exchange. What you get there for that one cent is not what I get here. But do we not cover ourselves similarly or do we not eat in similar ways and most interestingly do we not “drop mangoes” exactly with the same smell? In fact do we not sit on the same thing to drop them? Some even sit on a Philippe Starck to drop the same (I do like Starck design that is why am mentioning the name). The romanticism of sitting on a designer toilet fitting is totally different and what I worry is only the economic nonsense it makes to do so. I do believe that human back have not changed since we learned to walk upright, or maybe even since long before that. Hence a functional object to fit our back need not change. Form of almost all toilet seats are similar including that of Starck. Only the object itself is fancifully elaborated. Whenever I start the story of the toilet I get a transit flight with delayed timings so will stop this subject and might write about it later.

Now where was i? I am here. Only thing missing is 1. How do 1 relate to i? hmm…? Today I propose a life without a single coin. Not only because I got robbed early Friday morning. But I do believe that it is possible. Imagine this!!! Or in reality think deeply about this!!!

I propose to offer my service free of charge. Why not? Yes it is possible. I simply have to do the things I do, and keep on doing and yet not bill my clients and even tell my clients not to pay. That is how I can do it. Now it is done and so how to proceed. When I do not get paid for the work I do and in fact the only income is no longer claimed then how do I settle my utility bills or get the food I eat or how do I cover my body with a descent cloth. This is the point where others come in to the newly formed thinking. As I begin to work for no return, simply I want a cloth manufacturer to give away some clothes for no cost at all, and a farmer to give their produce for no return at this moment. But now you will wonder then how do the cloth manufacturer and the farmer live on. They will have more than enough for them to wear and feed for themselves. If this is going little awkward to understand let me put it in a simpler way.

If everyone offers to give their own produce and/or service at no cost at all, then no one will ever need to purchase anything. I will offer my service free and my basic necessity (don’t even think about it … what I mean here is descent basic necessity like food, clothing and in today’s words utility and other bills and so on) fulfilled by you at no cost.

Let us erase the concept of money and our smile shall come back. A world without a demand and supply tension that already has reached a limit state. (I cannot explain limit state in tensile structures, an engineer can answer that). Imagine a people without greed and hatred. Feel a hug that will not cost you anything. Sense a handshake that will not lead to a wallet. Knowing how worried someone is will never cost you a hidden communication package.

Seriously I am proposing this and as you might be wondering, yes I am ready to begin. Are you ready to walk with me? I honour my droppings and that does not cost me anything but gain free ideas by losing some weight.