For centuries, humanity has lived under two great experiments: capitalism and communism. On the surface, they seem like opposites — one worships the market, the other the state. But beneath their differences lies the same hidden root: fear and lack of trust.
Artificial Scarcity
Both systems were born from the same doubt — the belief that people cannot be trusted to share, cooperate, or care without being controlled.
So one tried to control through money and ownership, the other through authority and rules.
Both tried to prevent chaos. Both tried to prevent scarcity.
But in truth, both created it.
Capitalism thrives on artificial scarcity — on turning natural abundance into commodities, putting a price tag on life itself. It must keep people wanting, buying, and competing, because without scarcity, money loses meaning. Anything abundantly available has no value in capitalism.
Communism, on the other hand, tried to redistribute the same imagined scarcity by replacing private ownership with state ownership and planning. But it still relied on control — and too much control always chokes flow. It feared greed, so it built walls. But walls only hide abundance from those who need it most. State control and distribution in communism only created a bottleneck for resources that was abundant in the first place, just like money and private ownership creates many bottlenecks in capitalism. Abundant resources first have to be filtered through who owns what and who can pay for it.
Communism didn’t abolish ownership — it merely transferred it from individuals to the state. The state claimed all resources and distributed them as it saw fit. That’s not freedom; it’s just another form of control. True freedom begins only when ownership itself dissolves, and resources become our shared inheritance — managed with trust, not fear.
The Currency of Trust
And then, of course, it’s easy to think, “Oh, but… what if someone just takes much more than they need?”
And that’s exactly how the old spiral begins again. Because that thought itself — that fear — is the opposite of trust.
It’s the seed from which all control and scarcity grow.
We simply need to choose trust, even in spite of the fear we might feel. Because when someone starts truly trusting, it spreads. Trust becomes contagious — and before long, fear loses its grip. In the end, both systems are mirrors of each other — two expressions of the same misunderstanding of human nature. Both are built on the assumption that trust is naïve, and that without control, people would take more than they need.
But what if it’s the other way around?
What if trust is the real economy — the invisible current that makes life flow? And a current that actually multiplies the more it is used. The more we trust the more trusting we get.
What if scarcity was never natural at all, but a collective illusion born from fear?
In the new world, the one described in Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity, humanity simply remembers.
We remember that the Earth already gives freely and abundantly. That collaboration isn’t utopian — it’s instinctive. That when everything is shared, nothing needs to be hoarded.
It’s not communism, and it’s not capitalism.
It’s a completely free world where humanity has simply chosen to share it instead of hoarding it.
A world built not on fear, but on trust.
And in that trust, the myth of scarcity finally ends.
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