As an accountant and a “performance measurement guy”, Mark Anielski understands global economics and GDP, but is interested in how we measure happiness and wellbeing as opposed to measuring output in financial terms.
In his conversation with Ben, he discusses
- The difficulty we all have in understanding where money actually comes from
- How money is created ex nihilo (”out of nothing”), and why this is a problem
- The history of our relationship with money
- A question around the translation of the Lord’s Prayer that relates to debt
Further reading