Free Money Day
September 15th is Free Money Day
A social experiment to popularize the sharing economy was launched in 2011 On this day, it is customary to give money to strangers - 2 coins or paper bills at a time, with the condition that one of them be given to another person In 2020, amid the pandemic, money began to be shared digitally The date for celebrating Free Money Day was not chosen by chance - September 15, 2008, the American financial services company Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc filed for bankruptcy Its collapse led to a global economic crisis and hit thousands of middle-income investors around the world
The initiators of the celebration are the Post Growth Institute from the USA Modern experts call “post-growth” a slowdown in economic growth and limiting the size of the Earth’s population, which cannot grow indefinitely The ideologist of the movement to reduce the number of people on the planet is the head of the WEF, Klaus Schwab According to the plan of the elites, which he conveys in his book “The Great Reset,” paper money will not play a big role in the society of the future They will be replaced by electronic ones - digital currency According to the idea of the initiators of Free Money Day, led by Donnie McLurcan, co-founder of the institute, people around the globe should understand the benefits of joint consumption of goods or services and begin to popularize a new type of economic activity
On September 15, cafe owners give customers free coffee with the condition that they donate the corresponding amount to strangers People donate funds in the most unusual ways One Twitter user left £10 on a toilet seat in a public place They received a comment on a social network that for someone “this will be the happiest visit to the toilet”
It cannot be stated unequivocally that the distribution of bills or coins contributes to the development of a new, progressive type of financial relations It is known that free cheese only comes in a mousetrap According to the organizers of the holiday, which is celebrated around the world on September 15, events in the form of donating money should stimulate people's critical and creative thinking This approach is no different in terms of creativity and novelty How can one not recall Ostap Bender, the legendary hero of the books by Ilf and Petrov, who knew “four hundred relatively honest ways of taking money” One of them used Kisa Vorobyaninov, who begged in a park in Pyatigorsk, using the now famous phrase: “Monsieur, not mange pas sis jour” (“Monsieur, I haven’t eaten for 6 days”)
According to the initiators of the celebration, Free Money Day participants should begin to think about global problems - the role of credit unions in people's lives, banking and debt forgiveness This idea refers us to the parable of the unmerciful debtor from the Gospel It is difficult to imagine that investors who went bankrupt after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, and some of them committed suicide, and their relatives are ready to forgive the corporation, whose shares turned out to be a bubble However, the thought of charity, giving away bills and coins to strangers on September 15th, is definitely a positive idea And it will be happily implemented by caring people all over the world on Free Money Day