A day for launching the reappropriation of the issue of wealth and currency: what really counts cannot always be measured, how can its value be recognized? How can the notion of wealth be extended? Why not come up with other ways of counting that take into account…the things that really count for us?

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has become the benchmark indicator for today's societies, based as they are on monetary evaluations; it is cited without knowing how exactly it is calculated, and gets confused with a country's wealth. But it is merely an estimation of those human activities that are measured on a monetary basis.
It thus takes into account a great deal of destruction, both ecological and human, once it generates economic activities and thus the flow of money. Conversely, it ignores the significant accumulation of non-monetary wealth. This would not be such a major problem if our societies only perceived the indicator as a relative measurement…But anything that has no price has come to be seen as having no value.

Accepting that wealth indicators are disassociated from the quality of our lives and our relationships with others and with nature produces attitudes and behaviour that are often in conflict with our sensibilities and feelings.

We need to reject the idea that there is nothing we can do - alternative forms of evaluation are possible…and already exist.

The day is made up of "activity areas" that participants can visit:

Day prepared with the support of the collectif richesses - http://www.caracoleando.org - in French.