My project revolves around creating a currency for the moon. Rather than creating a physical currency, I imagined the constraints of the moon, the reasons why we would have to go to the moon, and how currency should be sustainable and accessible to all. These includes constraints of the moon in terms of natural resources and air where the reason that we would go to the moon is because the earth has already become uninhabitable. Because it has become uninhabitable, we would then consider the necessity of humans to preserve their existence in the moon. Because of this need, we would then require a state system that is strictly governed to monitor and preserve humankind. For this currency, I designed it as a system that’s proposed to the forum as an informed and logical solution to being utilized in which the proposal is a social credit system. This currency is then an exchange of resources such as food, water, and shelter, for the worker’s completion of tasks which is monitored by the State. In doing so, the state of the moon would then be a safe working environment that’s sole purpose is survival. While this system is authoritarian and illogical to create a progressing civic state, it is necessary to enforce power and restrictions upon humans to work and preserve the human existence.
As for the system, it doesn’t have any monetary connections as money is the reason of environmental devastation that caused the earth to become uninhabitable due to exploitation of industry and natural resources. sIt is also because of this imagined logic that money becomes a censored topic of this State as it is illogical to be supporting a system that caused most of the world to be erased. Hence, because of the dangers and evils of money along with the necessity of humans to become morally righteous, money is absent in this currency system. Instead, it is based on scanning the face of the member of society and checking their work progress to promote moral righteousness as well as state contributions for the healthiness of society. From all this, the society that they live in will be very centric and organized where the members of the State will also be imposed very strict schedules to promote orderliness and stability in the system. As everybody is partitioned the same food and water with the same amount of time for sleep, it will become a system in which everyone becomes like each other. This will then allow for the usage of currency in the city to be simple by simply scanning the proletarian work of farming and agriculture and the face of the members of the State to check that everything has been completed normally.
This was inspired by novels of Brave New World, colonial America, the Communist Manifesto, and the partition system of China in the 1900s. Firstly, when I was thinking of a currency, I imagined places to which it could be applied, where, and why. The moon then came up as my destination of interest. I then researched the conditions of the moon with various sources and considered the moon my primary location for this. The most important aspect would be considering the premise for being on the moon and using currency which would be that the Earth must be uninhabitable, otherwise, there would be no point due to the costs of being on the moon. This then moved me towards research of past currency in the QUID which was a space currency revolving around a circular shape of space-grade material that would be safe to use. This caused me to evaluate many sources in which the images could all be found in the proposal presentation. As for how the texts/history influenced my idea of a social credit system, I was inspired by Brave New World’s World State that implied control over all aspects of civilians lives and had them based upon working for the state. In addition, I also considered John Smith’s quote of colonial America when the colonists were on the brink of survival being that every man must work to eat. In all of this, it inspired me to think about humanity on the brink of survival where we must only think about our basic needs rather than any economic interests. Furthermore, I also thought about the Marx’s Communist Manifesto which incorporates proletarian culture and how it could be applied to my state. Lastly, I considered the partition system of China in the 1900s where it was the State or the local village that had a communal food area that allowed for people to eat together. All of this would lead to the system that I have proposed to be incorporated in my imagined scenario.
Lastly, the documentation of my project is a slideshow which can be found in the link.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18MhnVGG69tGLK56VEPhKLtVl6LOZ0IbL2EsvFAd19x8/edit?usp=sharing
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