Allowing our money, actually credit used as money, to be issued privately as debt, be it to individuals, businesses or government, systematically makes the rich richer. In this monetary system we pay the rich to be rich. It is a power that rightfully belongs in government only who can then issue the exchange medium without debt by spending it into the productive economy. We ignore this at our planet’s peril. Thomas Jefferson himself wrote about it in his Earth Belongs to the Living letter to James Madison in 1789, basically saying that debt-dominant money systems force us to “eat up the usufruct (or substance) of the land.” Unfortunately Hamilton convinced Congress to let a private bank issue our money.