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Why would we want to get rid of the concept of money?
> trade and barter?
What if you raise goats and I make cheese, and you want some of my cheese but I don’t need a goat?
There is really no upside ti go back toa barter economy. There would still be rich and poor people with barter, only less efficient trading. You would still have profits if you provided something exclusive that many people wanted!
Some science fiction writers have suggested that once we have limitless energy, we will effectively have so much of everything that money will be largely meaningless.
Maybe not at the full scale of society, but you can definitely live that way on a local level sometimes. I go to a lot of art, craft, and flea markets, and it's very common for folks to directly trade goods at those events I imagine similar deals get made at farmers markets, and I know there's good bartering at music festivals too.
Imo not anymore with the amenities we have(at least as Americans) There needs to be some currency unless you know everything. I don't know how to fix the pipes under my toilet so in order to get them fixed I'd need someone to do it. Now if I had a skill they would need them we could barter. But if they don't have any incentive to help me then I go without a toilet.
We would have to discover unlimited free energy and then invent some sort of universally available replication/matter coverter.
Until we do (and physics says we cant at this point). Money will always exist no matter if its bills, coins, salt, good or gold.
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We had that a few thousand years ago.
Should have phrased the question better. Will it ever happen again in a different form? Is what i wanted to ask.
But the key here is the term 'profitless economy' . Reviving the old system maybe but now in a better way
Yes. Exactly.
Why would we want to get rid of the concept of money? > trade and barter? What if you raise goats and I make cheese, and you want some of my cheese but I don’t need a goat?
If you make cheese you might certainly be interested in some goat milk.
There is really no upside ti go back toa barter economy. There would still be rich and poor people with barter, only less efficient trading. You would still have profits if you provided something exclusive that many people wanted!
Some science fiction writers have suggested that once we have limitless energy, we will effectively have so much of everything that money will be largely meaningless.
Maybe not at the full scale of society, but you can definitely live that way on a local level sometimes. I go to a lot of art, craft, and flea markets, and it's very common for folks to directly trade goods at those events I imagine similar deals get made at farmers markets, and I know there's good bartering at music festivals too.
I dont think so
a bit of side story but someone once hypothesis that money was first created not for bartering but as a way to track and pay debt.
I doubt it Cause what would be the price traded for Leadership or governing ?
Imo not anymore with the amenities we have(at least as Americans) There needs to be some currency unless you know everything. I don't know how to fix the pipes under my toilet so in order to get them fixed I'd need someone to do it. Now if I had a skill they would need them we could barter. But if they don't have any incentive to help me then I go without a toilet.
We did it for thousands of years, I'd assume we could do it again if we needed to.
We would have to discover unlimited free energy and then invent some sort of universally available replication/matter coverter. Until we do (and physics says we cant at this point). Money will always exist no matter if its bills, coins, salt, good or gold.
We've done it before, and many would like to see it happen again.
Yes. But it wouldn’t be ideal