The Cancer Stage of Economic Parasitism, 13

The energy reserves of a biologic host are its fat deposits; those of a socioeconomic host are its savings and properties. A vast and penetrative textbook case of artificially increasing the socioeconomic metabolism is what they call “monetisation”, and it is pointed out, described and documented by Marco Saba in his Moneta Nostra, Our Money.
Reality is basically agreement: things are real because we agree they are real. And ownership is no exception: someone owns something, and someone transfers one’s ownership of something to someone else, because we all agree that ownership and that transfer are real. We may even disagree with that ownership of with that transfer, but this is quite something else than disagreeing with the fact that they are real, that they do exist.
Two concepts come in handy here: non−monetary economy and registered property.
Imagine a peaceful community in which everyone has a house and agrees that everyone owns one’s house, and such agreement is not registered anywhere because no one would ever dream of trading houses, and because one’s word and handshakes are enough anyway. As one’s house is considered a basic survival factor rather than an asset likely to be traded, consequently the very idea of quantifying its value is absent. In that community, houses are a part of its reserves embedded so deeply that only on the occasion of a natural disaster people would start to notice it. Because only a natural disaster could take their houses away from them. Those houses, that reserve, are non−monetary economy: survival factors with the interesting qualities of being non−quantified and non−tradeable.
And then imagine that someone begins to push the idea of “economic development”: this means more trade, more production, greater use of resources, a general increase of economic flows. In other words, a mobilisation of resources from reserves into flows. To hop aboard the economic development, to participate in the increase of flows, people must exchange more capital, and to exchange it they must put it on the plate.