Miserable Corporate Mother Fucker

[Excited Penguin]

I'm saying money should be taken out of the equation altogether. We should think of more efficient ways to function as an economical society than symbolizing and thus inherently promoting wealth.

Well, the reason money came about in the first place is that it is the most efficient way to function as an economical society.

It doesn't matter what economic system you use or envision - pure Marxism, corporate fascist States, the semi-psychotic Leninist view of wealth distribution, a barter system, whatever - money is the easiest, most efficient means of valuing goods and services.  This is why your employer doesn't pay you six cattle per week, but the equivalent of six cattle per week. 

Boru

Very imaginative of you.

What I'm saying is, we wouldn't need these kinds of equivalents to organise ourselves, if only we were all a bit smarter. All it does is complicate things needlessly. We'll get rid of it too, someday, once we reach a higher mode of functioning.

All money does is differentiate people, oftentimes unjustly. It gives power to a select few and enslaves the many.

Just think of a world where virtually everyone is responsible, both for himself, and his community. Think of a world where everyone gets what they need and can possibly want. What part would greed play? None. What part would money play in this kind of wealth distribution? Just think about it. Would it really be necessary at all? No. Society would fare far better than it does in the current state of affairs, too.

People would be far more responsible than they are now. We would need to lose the vindictictiveness and other baggage of prehistoric impulses first though.

To some this idea might seem scary, like we would be far too undistinguishable from one another and all individuality would be lost in this massive sharing of values, but one wouldn't be taking into account the price at which this illusion of uniqueness we hold about ourselves in the current chaos comes, if one were to think so.