Are people so uneducated as to think the world could function without monetary systems?, page 13
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reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 07:09 PM by chinni
OP, the way you think of buying things without money is the same as buying things with money like stuff. Say you say to someone, "I'll buy that house of you, here's 3 apples" They reply "No, I want your goat". So buy that the apples are worth less than the goat and so there is a value/monatary system gonig on.

What the point of destroying the monatary system is that we have the ability to evenly distribute large amounts of resources to everybody and provide everything, and more utilitys or whatever for you and every one else.

Have you noticed the slow develpoment of technology since money come into power? Back in the cave days, we made advance technology without any hassle and without expensis, but now, our technolgy development depends on the amount of green we have. It's a MAJOR restriction on our abilities. Without money we can build technology we couldn't fathom today. It would be like the first bread slicer back in the day. A huge leap toward the easness of human life.

We could easly create cures for diseases and illnesses, but again, like technology it is restricted by money. Ever wondered why scientists working on cures aren't given things they need in experiment for free when they have the potential to cure millions of people?

In the monatary system, profits come before human life. It's right in your face, how do you not see it?

Oh and do you see any other animal use a money system of any way? It's not natural for use. Animals share what they have with their community.


reply posted on 5-7-2009 @ 01:20 AM by grapesofraft
reply to post by chinni




Have you noticed the slow develpoment of technology since money come into power? Back in the cave days, we made advance technology without any hassle and without expensis, but now, our technolgy development depends on the amount of green we have. It's a MAJOR restriction on our abilities. Without money we can build technology we couldn't fathom today. It would be like the first bread slicer back in the day. A huge leap toward the easness of human life.

Oh and do you see any other animal use a money system of any way? It's not natural for use. Animals share what they have with their community.


Are you kidding me? Advancement of technology is slow today compared to the good ole days when we were cavemen

Since money has been around we have developed more tech in the last few hundred years then in all of human history combined. I am not saying money is the only reason, but it is part of the reason.

LMAO, I dont see animals using toilet paper either but it doesnt mean I want to get rid of it and start wiping my butt with my hand.


reply posted on 1-1-2012 @ 05:06 PM by ofhumandescent


reply posted on 1-1-2012 @ 05:49 PM by HillbillyHippie1
I'm all for a monetary system which is based on real things with real value, which immediately excludes fiat currency. It's not monetary systems I am against, it is economic systems which have been tried. If one can gain power with nothing but money, then the economic system is a failure, in my opinion.

Economies should exist for the purpose of trade, and monetary forms should exist for the purpose of common exchange - nothing more. If you are sitting on 10 tons of gold your gold should have no more value than someone is willing to assign it. If I own enough farm land to feed a village and you have 10 tons of gold, in my opinion, what I own is worth more than what you own, but it is not so in terms of the way civilization is run now adays. I can feed a village with my farm land, but all you got is a heap of metal. If you can make that metal useful, then so be it, but you shouldn't have more power and status than someone who can feed a village just because you possess something - you should have to actually have something of greater value to have more power and status.

The laws of supply and demand can be manipulated, but real value is real value. Someone with 10 tons of gold and nothing else should not have the ability to buy off politicians to put the guy with enough farmland to feed a village out of business - there is something seriously wrong with a system when that can be done, as the guy with the farmland obviously had a more valuable resource for that community, but the guy with the gold used what is more valuable to politicians (rather than the people) to take it from him. I've never seen anyone live off of eating gold.

The majority of the problem, in my opinion, is that people, particularly the ones running the show, have no bearings anymore when it comes to rating the value of things. They think it is perfectly acceptable that people, with real lives of value, die so they can have bridges and running water or even oil and gasoline. When money trumps life, it kind of defeats the entire purpose of civilization, of which economy is just one part. Why have money if that is the way things are going to be? I think that is the thinking going through the minds of people who suggest we abandon monetary and economic systems.

Who would want to buy a 500K house in a civilization that thinks a single life is expendable for that house? In my opinion, only worthless people who should be shunned by society.
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