Money Farm CHAPTER 6
MONEY SPOTTING
All systems carry patterns,
cycles and trends.
QUESTION:
What enables the wealthy to
accumulate while the poor depreciate?
After the redundancy, my
resolve to understand the financial system and money handling became action. In
fact it became my obsession. There was fascination, there was dedication, but
this was a true obsession. I had one year’s savings – enough to buy time to
search for a decent job. I applied for research roles on a daily basis and
utilized the rest of my time to analyse and digest the economy of
wealth generation in comparison to debt degeneration. Obviously, there was a
division of wealth between the rich and poor but there was a new anomaly in the
market: the M.O.N.E.Y.s., simply called The Moneys. The M.O.N.E.Y.s were an
alternate breed of people filled with financial secrets. They resided behind
the monetarily high walls of the M.O.N.E.Y. farm. M.O.N.EY. was a banking institution
set on a series of huge islands just off the coast. Each island was linked by
bridges which filled vast grounds. The only access was over lifting bridges and
each island was walled. It was a modern financial fortress and had existed for
over two hundred years. They said that if trouble came then the islands could
up-anchor and move to calmer waters. I had often wondered why M.O.N.E.Y. would
choose to be on the sea and not on land. Everything they did was for a purpose,
so why choose the sea and not the land?
Over
the years I would peer from my landing window and admire its ornate structure.
The intricacy of linking bridges resembled a web of connections. I wondered
whether each island had a different function. On the central island the
majestic architecture reached up into the sky and reminded me of a financial
cathedral. On other islands there seemed to be housing, food and
water-refineries. There were days, and this blew me away, where they would test
the motion of the islands and re-organise themselves. Each island moved around.
They could add additional island platforms to each interconnected structure
they had just created. New bridges would be quickly constructed and the Money
farm would have a new financial field ready for its cash crop. The place was
independent, separate and completely unique.
After a little research I
found out that in the last twenty years, when banking blame became rife, and
fingers pointed in the M.O.N.E.Y. direction, the M.O.N.E.Y. farm closed its
doors, gates and lifted its metaphorical bridges. M.O.N.E.Y. purchased all the
surrounding islands, the nearby land and the whole of the quay area. The quick
acquisition of a bankrupt shipyard in a neighbouring inlet resulted in floating
engineering feats that could be bolted on to the financial flotilla. It quickly
built high walls around each island, a series of lifting bridges, and became
self-sufficient. It rapidly grew into an enormous complex set of islands with
greenhouses, gardens, fields and housing complexes. Quite coincidentally the
expansion coincided with the third collapse. As a response M.O.N.E.Y. evolved
its own financially exclusive system - one that remained inaccessible to the
outside world. A system that worked, grew and gained financial power. That
power threatened the whole of the banking system including the sovereignties.
LINK TO HEAR ON AUDIO - SOUND CLOUD
Narration - Helen Lloyd - Kick A$$!
Really Great Narration - Brits and Aussies and Germans and more. Lovely voice to listen to and she even captured the rather robotic nature of the cult-like members of the Money Farm.
This is a really terrific book - and is it bad that for the majority of the book I was thinking "sign me up!" (or at least sign up one of my grand-kids and let me move into one of the retirement neighborhoods).
The Money's are all 'their best selves' due to the nutrition and fitness requirements along with a few other treatments along the way which are tailored to each individual and allow them to reach their full potential. All their needs are met, they have no debts, no worries, they are appreciated and they all live in really nice digs. (like I said...sign me up!)
It's a smartly written and thought provoking book of a Dystopian/Eutopian society where our heroine Jyllian finds her-self jobless with her savings running out. She ends up being selected to join the M.O.N.E.Y.'s as a "breaker" because of her intelligent & rebellious way of thinking. She is to challenge their systems and find ways to break them, all in the name of making them better.
The story follows her and a few other select characters through their introduction to Money, their training, their indoctrination and ultimately through their discovery of what Money's goals really are.
I can't really say much more without giving away too much, but I thought it was a really terrific book. It was hard for me to 'get into it' in the beginning, but I plan to listen to the start again.
It's smartly written and filled with intricate details about these two "worlds". Really an interesting book about the state of the worlds finances! Loved it! I'm actually stunned that I'm only the second review of this book on Goodreads. READ or LISTEN to it! It's a keeper!
I received a copy of this audiobook free of charge from Audiobookblast in exchange for an unbiased review.
