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I think that the principle of currency will always exist, even if it were to cease to mean legal tender. A system without currency only functions properly if everyone is happy with what they're given and nobody wants more than the next person and nobody is willing to barter. The notion is idealistic but unrealistic.
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If mankind cultivates a highly technological civilization in the future without destroying itself in the process then it is inevitable that currency will become obsolete.
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Why so all or nothing? People in America could begin by rejoicing in everybody having healthcare. "As long as everybody`s needs are met"? Healthcare is like a PRIMARY need for everybody. But seemingly people cant even get that right without cries of "communism" and "socialism" as if that was the threat. The real threat is having cancer and not having the means to get help. So lets start with healthcare and not go overboard. Huh?
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Look at Star Trek, I know it's fiction but it's pretty realistic in a lot of ways. I honestly think that we could and we will at some point in the future. No time soon though.
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True enough. But the experiment has also succeeded. This is in French Polynesia where civilization did, in fact prosper for hundreds of years before they were introduced to the idea of physical money by the French, who colonized them. And even today, although the Polynesians do use money it doesn't quite hold the their society as it does western culture. Many of the regions employers have to double or triple staff numbers because there is very little need to have a steady pay check because the culture is loosely constructed so that there is no real form of personal, unshared possession and rather a society where each citizen can provided what is needed for every other citizen so there is no real "bills to be paid" that can't be "collective paid" so to speak.
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True enough. But the experiment has also succeeded. This is in French Polynesia where civilization did, in fact prosper for hundreds of years before they were introduced to the idea of physical money by the French, who colonized them. And even today, although the Polynesians do use money it doesn't quite hold the their society as it does western culture. Many of the regions employers have to double or triple staff numbers because there is very little need to have a steady pay check because the culture is loosely constructed so that there is no real form of personal, unshared possession and rather a society where each citizen can provided what is needed for every other citizen so there is no real "bills to be paid" that can't be "collective paid" so to speak.
Now, many would say, "Well then there would be know one doing work at all and there would be unmatched chaos." The argument being that it is human nature to work towards goal and do things they enjoy doing, so the world would not just be nearly seven billion couch potatoes. As far a chaos, at least in the south Pacific there has been one murder in eighty years and it was committed by a tourist. My thought was, could this be applied to the rest of the modern world.
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That experiment has been tried and failed.
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That experiment has been tried and failed.
I guess you didn't see the breadlines in Moscow during the communist regime or the suffering and poverty in East Berlin,or Poland before Lech Wawensa. Look at Venezuela right now with a government taking from the rich landowners to re-distribute to the poor who have no idea what to do with the land that is now theirs. They are the proud owners of property that is productively worthless.
All money is, is a redistribution mechanism of value paid for value earned. It means I can get pineapples even thogh I live in a climate that can't grow them
I live in an area that can grow corn. Money makes it a lot simpler to somehow get this corn to Hawaii and bring back pineapples.
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Of course not -- there are serious problems with barter and mercantilism and imagining the world as one big commune is to vastly oversimplify needs. But it's strange watching people pontificate about it. So much education at one's disposal, and so education becomes disposable. Bleah.
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I assume you mean that if tomorrow the world stopped using currency after centuries and not what if currency was never created.
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I assume you mean that if tomorrow the world stopped using currency after centuries and not what if currency was never created.
Ego and the alpha male instinct ties into who we are at a baser level that pushes us to achieve more. Yes people would expect more if they feel their work is more valuable or needed. Whether that be they get an extra goat or chicken, a larger house or some sort of decision making power. Currency is how we rationalize worth. If not with gold or paper it would be with animals, land or people.
As to the idea that if all of humanity would band together we could cure cancer, feed everyone, house everyone, blah blah is a novel one and something I do believe is possible. Yet, history tells us it won't which is sort of sad.
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/\/O. You always(All-weighs) have to have the protagonist and the antagonist in any arena...the spirit thrives on competition. However, do I think that the prop that is 'money' is designed poorly, based on housing mortgages, yes. First it was salt, then gold and silver, and now...housing mortgages that rot. Doomed to fail based of relative application of energy distribution. Currency(ebb and flow) should be designed to let the senses thrive, and not be stymied or limited. Wii can do bet-tour I tHInk.
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I think the idea of a society without currency is ideal but what is society without structure? chaos. and without money to constrain the masses, there would be chaos.
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I think the idea of a society without currency is ideal but what is society without structure? chaos. and without money to constrain the masses, there would be chaos.
and guess what, we're running low on that too
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