Here's an even simpler solution, Woody. Do away with money altogether, and organize society under a completely different set of purposes...such as: doing things that most NEED to be done BECAUSE they need to be done, not because it makes anyone a profit, but because it IMPROVES life for people and benefits the natural world too!

What a revolutionary notion, eh?

Of course, that would mean the end of American civilization as you know it, the end of unemployment, the end of rich and poor, the end of people not being able to afford medical treatment they desperately need, the end of homeless street people, the end of casinos and gambling, the end of the illegal drug trade, the end of organized crime...etc...

Too awful to contemplate, right? ;-)

Never mind. Just go back to what you were talking about, then, and keep spinning your wheels the American way. I'm sure it will all work out in the end...not!