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It would be a safer place... but power would still find a way to become the top of mind of every human, with or without money unfortunately
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Money represents time, work, and effort. It represents power, freedom, and choice. I recognize that money itself has an almost negative connotation in society, but I disagree with this idea. To me, the pursuit of money by means of hard work is the most honorable way to spend time. Without this incentive, a self-serving man is reduced to work to survive, with little interest beyond what which is in front of his own eyes. Less industrious men would be able to take advantage of a communal market; they would rest upon the shoulders of giants.
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the money, or beads, or shells, aren't the issue. It's the greed / charity behind the purse strings that matter
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Money, currency is a tool. What you do with it is how it is valued. It is as necessary as any other tool and can be used as such. A spade can be used to plant a tree or kill a man. So can money. It is neutral. Bartering would be no "better" or "worse" simply more impractical. The reason it has so much control over our world is because of it practicality. I believe there are is far more good than bad in the world and anything that makes things easier for the "good" is itself good. All tools are neutral, you assign the value to the tool. If yo are good that the tool will do good, if you are bad than the tool is bad. Do not blame the tool.
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It's not about money. It's about the person holding the wallet. If I'm broke, I don't buy. I barter. We are not helpless unless we choose to be.
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If we were to have never invented it, the world would be a better place where we all worked for the greater good, sortof like a commune. However if we just took it away, people would be as*holes about it.
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If all of a sudden money just disappeared then it would cause a lot of problems (at least at first). But a stable society can exist without currency.
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Money limits us from becoming too greedy. Case in point, those super rich corporate people, they have no limits. Let's take the issue of environment, for example. People who have no limits would just cut down all the trees without caring about the effect it would have. Bottomline: No money, no limits.
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If money had no value then the world would probably be a mess right now. Anyone can have whatever he/she wants. (take note of the saying: "we all want the same thing" it's going to be one hell of a riot if we took away the value of money
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Barter and trade--exchanging products would be more complex and time-consuming--how do I pay for a laptop? With 60,000 eggs? By working in the manufacturing facility for two months to pay with my physical labor? How would we pay the people who build our roads? Bridges? Staff public transit? The reason why money has so much control of the world is because we invest way too much importance in it. We have forgotten our respective talents and how to offer them without tying it to money and ego.
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We would not depend our life on things because we had to be ready to trade anything for something we need more.
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I find the prospect of a trade society, a lot more appealing then a monetary system…
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If there isn't any concept of "currency", we would likely use a barter commerce system in society.. Not a bad thing by any means but having a monetary system allows for the convenience of a standard format for valuing products as well as an easier way to keep track of the "paper trail". Especially in a Capitalist country where income is produced in various ways and spent in various ways, there is a need for accounting our deficits and revenues...
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Money is intrinsically good, but when it regiments your life it recoils to its original value - zero.
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Even though it causes problems without it, there would be chaos. Without currency people would hoard and kill for supplies in order to survive. Money provides a system in which we can purchase goods. It's also used for motivation and productivity. People work because to earn money to be able to sustain themselves. If people aren't earning money they don't find a reason to provide a service.
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I think there is a significant connection with money and man since we need to feel entitled to something, or power of ownership. We need to 'own' something to feel worth something. We need to know our worth...whether it be in chickens or dollars and cents. To view a worth is visually assuring that you're mental worth can be supplemented in material ways.
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You can't get rid of currency. Throughout all of human history it has always existed one way or another, through trade or some other form. If it didn't exist then we would fall into anarchy and start steeling from one another and have no order. It controls us because it's a problem of giving up one thing for another. You have to pose the question "How valuable is this to me, and is it worth giving it up for the other thing I really want/need. The more we have the more we can get in return and the closer we are to obtaining the thing we really want.
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If money didn't exist, I think we'd simply revert back to the Dark Ages, where people were deemed powerful based on the amount of foodstuffs they were able to raise and supply armies. I think that shiny things like gold would become premium once again also. I also think that the rich that are rich now would probably die out quickly, since they have no survival skills and the survivalists would become the new lords of society. New Age Vikings would start to pillage and plunder for more wealth, and others would become peasants living off of those peoples' wealth. I know that sounds dark, but given history, it seems like a possible scenario.
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I'm not a fan of money, simply because I see how it corrupts and hardens people against the human condition. Without it, we'd probably have a trading system like we did before its existance; I'll trade you a dozen eggs for half a dozen potatoes, or I'll trade you three heads of lettuce for two bunches of bananas. Etc., etc.
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I'm not a fan of money, simply because I see how it corrupts and hardens people against the human condition. Without it, we'd probably have a trading system like we did before its existance; I'll trade you a dozen eggs for half a dozen potatoes, or I'll trade you three heads of lettuce for two bunches of bananas. Etc., etc.
Money has such a control over us because it gives us power. But humans give the money power; without its "value" it's simply paper or metal. When we pursue it its "value" goes up, and it makes it more desirable.
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I'm not the biggest fan of the concept of money, but it's absolutely necessary because of the sheer amount of stuff that exists. A barter system could not possibly work in a world with billions of different products.
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With no money we would have a sustainable society.
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With no money we would have a sustainable society.
The only problem is that I have to pay you in sheep.
Next spring.
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i think everything would fall apart because many peole don't know the value of things. i being one of them. haha i know things that are made for cheap should be cheap...but then where would the profit be. everything would fall paart...then money would be replaced/created/whatever. there's always been some sort of trade. this for that. i dunno.
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That is an excellent question! I think money has so much control over the world because a certain group of people have pushed it to go that way. I find it strange that we are still living this way. Everything is subject to change including money and the way we live. There are alternatives to this money thing but I think people are reluctant to look at it because it means a really big change. In my opinion money is the thing that separates us so without money we may finally be able to start learning how to deal with our differences. Sure we could do that now but the people with it I would guess wouldn't be down for bringing themselves to the same level as everyone else.
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Barter and trade... unfortunately with that system if you work for a peanut farmer then you'll quite literally be paid peanuts.
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