62.3 The modern Midas sequence: life → asset → claim → yield → power
587.9 GDP and asset inflation as false progress
72.4 Diagnosis rather than fatalism
597.10 Algorithmic attention extraction and the financialization of consciousness
82.5 Why the trap can be escaped only by restoring money to life-service
607.11 Public rescue of private claim-systems without public control
93. The Deeper Trap: Life-Blind Value
617.12 De-implementation under bad faith: leverage, transparency, and replacement vessels
103.1 Value abstracted from life
62Synthesis: what must stop
113.2 McMurtry’s money-value sequence and life-value correction
638. Toward Life-Coherent Financial Stability
123.3 Claim-sovereignty over life-capacity
648.1 The design principle: finance must remain answerable to life
133.4 Financial stability versus life stability
658.2 Pillar One: monetary transparency
143.5 Why finance becomes civilizationally dangerous when it becomes ultimate
668.3 Pillar Two: credit for life-capacity
154. Monetary-Financial Capture as a Seven-Primitive Stress Test
678.4 Pillar Three: de-rentierization
164.1 Constraint: debt, property, ratings, law, asset values, and fossil-financial dependency
688.5 Pillar Four: debt relief and jubilee pathways
174.2 Margin: households, states, ecosystems, communities, and future generations under narrowing repair capacity
698.6 Pillar Five: public and community banking
184.3 State: managed depletion under financialized stability
708.7 Pillar Six: civil commons financing
194.4 Disturbance: crises that reveal the hidden hierarchy of rescue
718.8 Pillar Seven: monetary diversity
204.5 Perception: what the financial lens sees and what it renders invisible
728.9 Pillar Eight: life-ground impact accounting
214.6 Regulation: protecting finance from life or life from finance?
738.10 Pillar Nine: rights of nature and future generations
224.7 Options: what futures become unimaginable under claim-sovereignty
748.11 Pillar Ten: democratic monetary governance
235. Necessary Distinctions for Monetary-Financial Discernment
75Synthesis: from financial stability to life-ground stability
245.1 Money is not wealth
769. Institutional Pathways for Life-Coherent Monetary-Financial Repair
255.2 Credit is not neutral
779.1 Public inquiry into money creation, debt, rent, and credit allocation
265.3 Growth is not flourishing
789.2 Central bank mandate expansion and life-ground stability
275.4 Rent is not productive contribution
799.3 Public credit-allocation reports
285.5 Financial stability is not life stability
809.4 Beneficial ownership registries
295.6 Austerity is not always necessity
819.5 Public banking and community banking infrastructure
305.7 Property is not absolute
829.6 Debt relief commissions and jubilee mechanisms
315.8 Corporate personhood is not living personhood
839.7 De-financializing housing and essential goods
325.9 Investment is not always repair
849.8 Fossil-finance de-implementation
335.10 Digital innovation is not civilizational progress
859.9 Commons-based infrastructure for water, energy, health, food, and digital life
345.11 The economy is not the life-ground
869.10 Monetary literacy in public education
355.12 Realism is not submission to financial power
879.11 Institutional not-knowing audits
36Synthesis: distinctions as repair instructions
889.12 Life-ground courts, guardians, and future-generation trustees
376. Naming the Machinery: Scholarly Instruments for Seeing the Trap
899.13 From institution to practice
386.1 McMurtry: money-value sequencing and life-value ontology
90Synthesis: pathways into life-coherent economy
396.2 Hudson: rentier capture and neo-feudal finance
9110. Conclusion: Restoring Money to Life-Service
406.3 Werner: bank credit creation and the allocation of futures
9210.1 The final life-coherent test
416.4 Keen: private debt, endogenous money, and crisis dynamics
9310.2 From claim-sovereignty to life-capacity
426.5 Lietaer: monetary monoculture and systemic fragility
9410.3 From financial stability to life-ground stability
436.6 Modern Monetary Theory: fiscal myths and real-resource constraints
9510.4 From austerity to public capacity
446.7 Mosley: democratic illegitimacy and the hidden power to create money
9610.5 From rentier extraction to civil commons
456.8 Galtung: financialized structural violence
9710.6 From hidden money creation to monetary democracy
466.9 Ostrom: civil commons and the governance of shared life-goods
9810.7 From Midas to metanoia
476.10 Wilber: developmental arrest in high-complexity institutions
9910.8 The world we must refuse to monetize to death
486.11 Synthesis: the claim-system as secular sacred incoherence
100Note on Sources
497. De-Implementing the Generators of Monetary-Financial Capture
101Acknowledgements
507.1 Debt peonage and predatory lending
102Author Bio
517.2 Housing as speculative asset before shelter
103Back-Cover Synopsis
527.3 Rentier extraction from land, infrastructure, platforms, and public goods
