We, the people of the world, recognize and declare that money is a social invention which can be changed by the people according to our values. We affirm that currencies, like any other product, service, or social institution, should be subject to people’s judgment and freedom of choice, and that the value of a currency derives from people’s perceptions and decisions about its worthiness to be regarded and used as a medium of exchange in the economy. We have seen, historically, that currencies based on a natural resource, such as gold, create an imbalance of wealth favoring nations within whose borders such resource primarily is found, and an economic incentive to plunder by those lacking reserves of such money.