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Can We ALL Stop Using Money?

JakesKTM

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What would life be like without money? Mankind has survived longer historically without an official currency system than with one.

If money is the root of all evil or is driving resource depletion, then how do we get off this rollercoaster and get beck on the ground?

I've been researching this answer lately and it seems like many people feel that money is the problem, but do not have the answer to abolishing it.

I'm starting this discussion as a moderator not facilitator. If there is no interest in this topic then maybe this isnt the place. But there are many minds here whom are very capable of presenting some real ideas and possible solutions.

So please contribute. I will start with this but in no way reflects my actual beliefs, just want to discuss.
 
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You want to live in the wild in a log cabin then sure don't need it.
You want to live in civilization gonna be tough trying to make your stand.
 
communism works perfectly in a simulation. communism doesnt work at all in the real world.
 
How can money be the root of all evil if mankind has survived longer without an official currency than with one? Unless you are contending that evil didn't appear until money did, it's a bit of a paradoxical setup, no?
 
Kill everyone and let God eat the dead bodies.
 
Money works fine. Currency is the problem. Currency is just printed, theres no intrinsic value and no "work" involved in its production. We assign value to worthless paper because the banking industry has said that its the best way to go, and it certainly is for THEM. Its not for us, the people responsible for the debt they've created without our permission.
 
Ok, short form. Money is abstracted labor, value, commodity, property. It's how we deal with exchange in a large complicated society. Without units of exchange we will get along fine, just forget anything more complicated than a village too large to be run by one man.
 
JakesKTM said:
What would life be like without money? Mankind has survived longer historically without an official currency system than with one.
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Money just makes transactions easier. You trade currency instead of products. I'm not going to trade 1000 goats for a Corvette just so I don't have to handle money.
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If money is the root of all evil...
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The LACK of money is the root of all evil.
 
I'll barter three dozen eggs and a scarf for your KTM. Meet at Walmart?
 
russ69 said:
Money just makes transactions easier. You trade currency instead of products. I'm not going to trade 1000 goats for a Corvette just so I don't have to handle money.

The LACK of money is the root of all evil.
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this is just so telling, because I know you really believe this

desire, is the root of all suffering.



money is a virtual organism that at one point rose to a mutually beneficial relationship with humans, but that time has long passed. its become a symbiotic and viral situation where it uses us to feed and propogate itself. humans are not in charge, money is
 
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kevin 714 said:
this is just so telling, because I know you really believe this

desire, is the root of all suffering.



money is a virtual organism that at one point rose to a mutually beneficial relationship with humans, but that time has long passed. its become a symbiotic and viral situation where it uses us to feed and propogate itself. humans are not in charge, money is
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Bravo. Capitalism is the scenario that prizes capital above people.
 
Some say a lack of money is the root of all evil and desire is the root of all evil. I don't disagree that evil will always exist. I'm saying how do we, as a species, survive without money - and is it necessary to our survival?

It's funny how people bring up communism or hippies in all this. Neither of those concepts or stereotypes have anything to do with the non-existence of money.

As far as the Stone Age reference, it brings up a good point that people fear giving up comfort? I don't think the Stone Age was any more or less wrought with suffering than we have in the world today. People are still beheaded and diseases persist, and people die horrific deaths every day. I think perhaps Stone Age references speak of fear more than they speak of solution?
 
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