Ultimately, money just is one tool for representing value that we have in our communities and in this world. It's really important that it is democratically accountable and that the functions of the Reserve Bank are actually serving the needs of the community, because the economy is just one subset of our society and our communities. All the economy is is a representation of the commercial transactions that we undertake with each other. Really, the economy is just some of the stuff we do as human beings; it's when we buy and sell things from each other or give each other services that we pay for, but there's a whole lot of things that humans do that is not caught by the measure of GDP; it's not caught by paid work. There's a lot of things that enable our society to function that aren't currently represented in commercial transactions. All of society, human society, is ultimately reliant on ecosystems to survive and thrive. If we aren't looking after our ecosystems we are going to be in deep trouble. So while back in the early 1980s and 1990s there was this view that somehow the economy was something that functioned on its own, separate to humans, and we couldn't possibly make trade-offs to protect the environment or to look out for the needs of people because of the economy. Well, in fact, the economy is just one part of what we do as humans.