Money is not wealth but rather wealth is the “organized technological capability to protect, nurture, educate, and accommodate the forward days of humans” (Grunch of Giants, pg. 77).) Money is only the medium of exchange. Money has become monopolized by the Grunch of Giants and all the while the Grunch repeatedly refuses to acknowledge the problem of how to protect and nurture human lives.
Fuller makes the argument that humans have transformed from rooted beings to beings with legs. Whereas in the feudal era, real estate and land and labor confined to a small geographical area was the norm, humans have transformed to a new era of global intercommunication and business. The “rooted socioeconomic land-capitalism” era of humanity is over (Grunch of Giants, pg 78). What this means for humans is that humans have become more mobile and thus more exploitable by the Grunch of Giants. Buckminster Fuller further laments that while human inventiveness has made production cheaper, corporations or the Grunch, have relentlessly increased prices.
Fuller makes another interesting argument. Fuller says that if we just put our energy and resources from the production of weaponry to the production of useful things necessary to man’s living, the habitants of planet earth would indefinitely have a sustainable base of wealth from which to live (Grunch of Giants, 80).
