I used to be blinded by Proudon, Gesell , Unterguggenberger , the Wir snobs, and their followers like Lietaer (RIP) and all the Freeland and Freemoney defenders.

I am a firm defender of social complementary currencies only if they serve as temporary tools to redirect the economy in times of crisis. Otherwise, I would rather make art with money or for the case with or on complementary currencies. Often more modern complementary currencies (CC) like the Ven in the UK , Spaincoin, Pesetacoin, the Wir money in Germany, Austria, etc. are undemocratic and unnecessary vanity projects dreamt up by an invitation-only club of yuppies (sorry, a new wave of urban consumers) to convince you that they’re protecting the environment whilst flying around the world between their exclusive ‘pavilions’.

Money, by the way, is always de-or in-flationary, and it is not proven that shrinking money would serve us today in an electronic money area. Notgeld, Depression script, municipal money (www.BilletesMunicipales.com), and so on (Gómez /Prittwitz 2017) are what we call a “monetary plurality”. Also, who says that complementary currencies are not subject to inflation come and go as all other historic money has? Money and or banks are neither good nor bad!!!!! Blind faith and a little knowledge of CCs is a dangerous thing. So let us make art with money and change the whole thing around into something new.

Why not a world without money, even? And we are on the way to such a thing. Certainly within a world of cashlessness. Aristotle said economics was only in part a matter of administration of the household, pearls, gold, silver, silk, and linen in the kitchen, markets, etc. Such, he did not care about it but left the domestic economy to his wife and servants. Referring to prices, credit, and interest he used the Greek word “khrema” which in my opinion has to do with the use and tear of all the free abundance of nature, the give and take, life and death of all things, a mysterious “thing” beyond the control of human beings.

I also used to like Rifkin's work and believed that there would be a zero marginal society (2014) but we already had the Internet of things (Amazon, eBay…) the collaborative commons, and are on the verge of the eclipse of capitalism when he said that. His work has been translated into 30 languages, and he is a well-known pre-thinker of our time. Certainly, it is the human condition (Liberty?) that will make it all fail. Sometimes however I feel sorry for less fortunate “bestsellers or shall I say “best sold” writers like Peter Bierl (Money and Racial Craziness 2012) and Jochen Jörlisch (Money and Media 2004 etc.) who have to my knowledge never been translated nor will since they don't belong to the exclusive foundation on economic trends in Washington.

In that regard money could be simply used as Wilko von Prittwitz does in his latest work (Capital Art) combining ideas from his PhD (Prittwitz 2017) with a critical approach to money. Wilko (www.wilko.tv) describes the artistic demands that a modern organization or a modern company can have on its own processes and thus design its own money as a complementary currency. But not to make money, but rather to regain control of our lives. It is about the design and control of essential parts of the economic organization from an artistic point of view. This includes both the way money is created and then used “for good or ill.” WilkoArt’s criticism of the creation and use of money also points to this.

Money has led us to unsustainable situations, to the destruction of the environment and artists cannot remain immobile in the face of degradation and climate change. Money was invented by humans: “Then why can’t we change it?”, he asks his viewers with his Images? Wilko touches the morale and the viewer’s pocketbook. He questions the monetary system and already in 1988, following the tradition of Joseph Beuys together with the architect Norman Foster (https://www.billetesmunicipales.com/foster.html) he transformed a 1000 peseta bill into a small work of art that can be See the website for the documentation of your doctoral thesis (www.BilletesMunicipales.com). Nearly, 7000 Spanish banknotes in alphabetical order. 2019–20 COVID Wilko sticks 3,500 euros on a gallery wall right next to his 180 x 2m deluge and makes Franklin tear his hair out.