The value of money is in scarcity. If you have more money but the same volume of goods, you can't buy more goods. Goods will cost more money, that's it.
We are standing next to a printing press - so we may become richer but ONLY if those who not getting this free money will get poorer.
To make all of us wealthier we must produce more goods, not more money.
Cryptocurrency is a push toward decentralizing money. If the world can take the money at the top 1% and disperse it to the rest then crypto has done it's job. This will take a lot of trial and error. The ultimate coins don't even exist yet. Not even close.
The idea that we have to produce and expand more is very consumerist. It's the same ideology as cancer. The valuable good that's being produced is the money itself. We've been long overdue for an upgrade for paper money and the governments that back it.
Most goods makes bad money: they spoil, not fungible, not easy to move and store, destroyed by division on parts etc.
Thats why we need actual money. But actual money are bad good - you can't eat them or make a shelter out of money. So we need goods for goodsies and money for economics to run. But goods are essential. You can have economy with no money, but cant have economy without goods.
True, but we also live in a world of artificial scarcity. The people in charge of the resources are "lying" to the world about how difficult it is to make a product so that they can charge more. We can feed the world but we don't. We can shelter the homeless but we choose not to etc.
That said I am working on a program for Steem so I know what you mean when you say this platform needs to do more.
True. We can do a lot more goods in a lot cheaper ways. Even get to an abundance in many spheres. But it's not about money... or to be precise not only about money. Cos tokenisation and disruptive fintec will add to an (exponential) economic growth, but cant make it alone.