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Abolish Money, Evolve Humanity
In an age of technologically-created abundance, clinging to a system of monetary exchange and acquisition just serves to retard human progress. While a monetary system served society for thousands of years, facilitating the exchange of scarce goods and services, in this age, we have virtually no use for such a system in the face of increasing automation in all aspects of life. The future of money is a non-future.
Societies of the past needed money to regulate the distribution of goods and services because these things needed human labour to extract and then to manufacture or provide such goods and services. However today, automation coupled with increasingly powerful computers, giving rise to cybernated systems, are able to accomplish the tasks of resource extraction and product production at no human cost, in a more efficient way. Similarly, the trends point towards automated systems displacing humans from the service sector. From bank tellers, to the car park attendant, waiters and even cooks.
Instead of destroying life, technology could serve as the emancipation proclamation for all human beings. Yet, if we want to retard this development, remaining in a monetary system. The result of more unemployment as a consequence of increasing automation would greatly reduce peoples' purchasing power. With no one engaging in the ritual of consumption, wh*** economies collapse and the wh*** world plunges into chaos.
Our system, being one designed for life hundreds of years ago, is not able to cope with the technological changes that exists today. We have to transcend it.
In a world without money, with all necessities of life (energy, clean food and water, clothing etc) being provided by automated production, people would be able to pursue whatever intellectual, artistic or scientific endeavour which interests them. No longer will we have to whore ourselves in order to obtain money so that we can survive. For the billions starving in the Third World, life will NOT have a price tag anymore. Social interaction would radically change when people are not compelled to act in selfish, competitive and apathetic ways like in a monetary system where they are forced to look out for their own (monetary) self-interest.
It is simply the best that money cannot buy.
P.S This is the kind of society that I envision operating under a money-less system:
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/an-irrelevant-problem-in-a
If you're interested in this concept, please visit The Venus Project or The Zeitgeist Movement. Better yet, you could take the time to watch a life-changing doc**entary, Zeitgeist Addendum.
Societies of the past needed money to regulate the distribution of goods and services because these things needed human labour to extract and then to manufacture or provide such goods and services. However today, automation coupled with increasingly powerful computers, giving rise to cybernated systems, are able to accomplish the tasks of resource extraction and product production at no human cost, in a more efficient way. Similarly, the trends point towards automated systems displacing humans from the service sector. From bank tellers, to the car park attendant, waiters and even cooks.
Instead of destroying life, technology could serve as the emancipation proclamation for all human beings. Yet, if we want to retard this development, remaining in a monetary system. The result of more unemployment as a consequence of increasing automation would greatly reduce peoples' purchasing power. With no one engaging in the ritual of consumption, wh*** economies collapse and the wh*** world plunges into chaos.
Our system, being one designed for life hundreds of years ago, is not able to cope with the technological changes that exists today. We have to transcend it.
In a world without money, with all necessities of life (energy, clean food and water, clothing etc) being provided by automated production, people would be able to pursue whatever intellectual, artistic or scientific endeavour which interests them. No longer will we have to whore ourselves in order to obtain money so that we can survive. For the billions starving in the Third World, life will NOT have a price tag anymore. Social interaction would radically change when people are not compelled to act in selfish, competitive and apathetic ways like in a monetary system where they are forced to look out for their own (monetary) self-interest.
It is simply the best that money cannot buy.
P.S This is the kind of society that I envision operating under a money-less system:
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/an-irrelevant-problem-in-a
If you're interested in this concept, please visit The Venus Project or The Zeitgeist Movement. Better yet, you could take the time to watch a life-changing doc**entary, Zeitgeist Addendum.
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Comment by Ezra Ho on April 1, 2010 at 1:49pm
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You've watched it? What did you think?
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Definitely. But before that, people have to come to realise that the current system is broken to the extent that no matter how much patchwork, we will not be one step closer to the solution. There has to be an awareness that the entire system has to be replaced. It will be slow and arduous, that's for sure, but to put it in a cliche, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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Comment by Linda Holt on April 1, 2010 at 2:02pm
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I agree - and I still hope. Great post.
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Comment by Paul Gibbins on April 1, 2010 at 2:35pm
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Ezra, well done. There is no future for money as it is conceived today.
A completely different system is required. Reform won't work.
Nice to have you here!!
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Thank you. It's great to see that there are some people here who can appreciate the idea that the current monetary system is broken and must be replaced before we can solve some of the world's most pressing problems.
I would really recommend everyone to go watch Zeitgeist Addendum as it was the doc**entary that totally changed my life and oriented me to this idea.
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Comment by Yumna Moosa on April 1, 2010 at 2:54pm
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"Social interaction would radically change when people are not compelled to act in selfish, competitive and apathetic ways like in a monetary system where they are forced to look out for their own (monetary) self-interest."
This is SO true. I have worked in a number of volunteer organisations, and when comparing the experience of working for free and working for money, I've found that vounteers are often prepared to put in so much extra time and effort, while employees tend to perform only to the degree that their pay demands.
A future without money would be driven by passion, and doing for the sake of doing. How exhilirating!
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Exactly, we need to reorient society from the current self-centered and materialistic-oriented outlook to one that recognises that we are all part of ONE planet. Unfortunately, you can see that the monetary systems creates all sorts of divisions and layers of stratification within society that we are all divided and conquered by the ruling class.
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Comment by Michael Texeira on April 2, 2010 at 8:25am
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I agree that as a power system, money is dreadfully insufficient. I'm not sure what it would need to be replaced with. value systems are important to provide meaning to people. I'm not sure what the psychological effect of having everything without work would be. it doesn't necessarily jive with the programming of an animal mind.
The Sirian Experiments, by Doris Lessing is a brilliant piece of sci-fi dealing with a society that has made this transition. I highly recommend it and Shikasta by the same author.
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I have not read either, though I did read the info on Wiki. I find such visions of the future such as this one, like Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, to be limited in their visions in that they tend to juxtatpose and extrapolate current socio-political and economic systems of the present into the future. It seems to be a misconception promoted by religion, evident in the "Original Sin" argument.
The main reason why we work is because it allows us to earn money, which in our system is the only way for us to survive. In other words, the system places a price tag on life. In this sense, money motivates us, but what are other motivations which the monetary system perpetuates: corruption, inside trading, collusion, environmental destruction, labour abuse, planned obsolescence etc.
Consider the great men that founded modern science like Newton, Tesla, Einstein and others. Did they make their great contributions to society because they wanted to make a buck? How about the numerous pioneers of science in 17-18th Century? Even though they had everything they could ever want, since those men were usually of the upper class, they did not become bums and lazed around. They studied and gave us the various disciplines of science and philosophy. They were the first multi-disciplinarians, even if their methods were primitive.
The only reason why people resort to this motivation argument is that in our dominant culture where work is mundane and so filled with drudgery, at the end of the work-day, most people feel the need to engage in escapist tendencies like playing addictive games, drinking, etc.
The future does not have to be like this. Technology could free us to pursue the higher things in life. We know almost nothing about the oceans, we have only scratched the surface when it comes to understanding life on our planet, we are destroying our planet's biodiversity so we don't even know if nature has a cure for cancer, AIDS and other deadly diseases, our space program is virtually dead. These are only examples of what we could achieve if we freed ourselves from the monetary system.
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on April 2, 2010 at 12:57pm
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Yes, I too, expect that we'll have another age of Enlightenment, where people can focus their interests in whatever direction they are most motivated to go, which will lead to all kinds of amazing discoveries about how the universe works, akin to Darwin and all his peers.
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