Funnily enough "welfare" is one word that's been dancing around my head in connection with this idea. It struck me that the general opinion, in this context, is that "welfare" is a bad word. This illustrates (t me at least) just how utterly fucked in the head our society is, that the welfare of our starving, malnourished fellow human beings is a bad thing. It's a hefty paradigm shift, that's for sure.
The other thing that struck me, from the Ted talk I linked in the op, is that this "Printing of money" that is required is not unprecedented. That's what the "stimulus" was all about. Only they didn't stimulate the ones who needed it, the poor and the dying. They stimulated the rich assholes who were the problem in the first place.
So I'm thinking "Welfare Stimulus"
Two missions in one phrase:
1) Convincing most of the world that ensuring the "welfare" of sick and dying people is worthwhile. Historically this has been a tough nut to crack. Most of the privileged people on earth, even the ones living in so called "poverty" in developed nations couldn't give a flying fuck about people who actually have nothing, either to own or to eat or to drink in a lot of cases. If they did there wouldn't be a problem.
2) Money isn't a real thing in limited supply and we can, in fact, just invent a whole bunch more to make up the shortfall, pretty much on the whim of the small group of people who control it. On this latter point we at least have recent precedent. Problem was the stimulus, being directed where it was, was obviously just a scam. We need to convince people that the word stimulus isn't evil but, rather a magic bullet that would have been amazing if they'd aimed it at the right target.
If we can tackle both these missions, I reckon we're well on the way to having a meme.
