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Originally posted by Distractions4Nothing
You can't get rid of money. It's human nature to trade. It's hard wired into our brains and sense of fairness. Something else would take its place. The barter system. And the barter system is BAD. It makes people hoard useful things like food instead of relatively useless things like little paper notes.
Originally posted by jdl79
For those that still think one world currency is a grand idea remember this, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. That in turn would be what whoever controlled the currency would have, absolute power. You also must remember that the players of the game wouldn't change, just the pieces with which they play. I don't want to sound cliche' but this is the truth of the matter. The control would still be held by IMF and World Bank and the likes, their means of control would just get easier. They wouldn't have to jump through quite so many loop holes to stick it to us and it would become a bit more blatant.
Originally posted by netwarrior
3. The financial expense of implementing such a currency would be staggering, and would likely far outweigh the benefits of taid currency. Think about how many vending machines you see a day. Every single one of those machines would have to be either overhauled or replaced, not to mention bank equipment, ATMs, and the like.
Originally posted by freakyty
Establishing a ONE WORLD is part of becoming a mature society. There are three key elements to becoming a level 1 (global) civilisation.
Originally posted by fyrelyzard66
It seems easy enough to me to implement this. Most money is electronic already with only a small percentage paper. Just make all worldwide paper money void. Each country would have central monetary servers that would control the flow. The last need would be to chip everyone and use the chip like a RF ATM card. It would also double as a passport/tracker.
Originally posted by Alexander_Supertramp
Pardon my interruption into this thread, but I hadn't seen this posted yet.
What bothers me is that we should be figuring out how to eliminate the need for currency alltogether, not finding a way to specialize in only one. The monetary system was a great idea to begin with, and absolutely necessary for the progression of mankind, but it has now been corrupted and is controlled by the few, controlling the many. Is this not grounds to believe that if governments truly cared about the people, they would try to make the world a better, more just place, and not allow it to continue to be ruled by a handful of greedy old men?
Just my opinion, take it for what it's worth, I just don't see how anybody truly trusts this whole monetary system idea anymore.
Originally posted by Distractions4Nothing
You can't get rid of money. It's human nature to trade. It's hard wired into our brains and sense of fairness.
Originally posted by Wotan
It seems to me that there are a lot of Luddites on this thread. As has been shown in the past few weeks, our current financial system is old and archaic. It is time for a change. Scrap National currencies for one World-wide one.
We want a GLOBAL CURRENCY and we want it NOW.
wouldn't it be illegal for the US to join a one-world currency