Money Free Society

[whingknutt]

Approximately 2 years ago, while I was living with Mark, he and I had a late night discussion about a utopia, and how man would need to societally evolve beyond the concept of money and bartering. Since then I have had various conversations with others about and around this topic. Each time I feel like I come closer to envisioning a solid mediary

Comments

[mikecap]

This is kind of how things will need to happen, I think. Multi-national corporations are going to take the place of governments... globalization is totally driven by the multi-nationals, and is going to end up delegitimizing national governments and economies.

[purple_dj]

On a simpler level, how is this setup any different from communism? What will prevent those who are in charge of distributing the goods to the employees from giving more to themselves and their friends, trading goods for favors. Part of the point in eliminating money is to eliminate the concentration of power that money allows, but there will still be a few people who have power, in the form of controlling goods.

[whingknutt]

well, that comes in a bit later... when the benevolent leaders no longer know every employee...

The contract is that all goods that are requested are granted, the only way to control who gets what is to make it so that the people that you don't want to have something never know it exists...
and that is just as hard to do as is providing any and all wants to all employees. I have other balances and checks that I'll get into in my next post, but they are less well thought out.

[purple_dj]

Nope. Don't see it working.

We can argue at the TUB tomorrow.

[dontime]

the difference between dan's idea and communism is that workers can get mad and quit. Bosses can get mad and fire people. So the two extremes (decadence and slothfulness) are not able to play as big a part.