RE: If You Ruled Your Own Country, Would You Ban Religion?
May 3, 2015 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2015 at 1:53 pm by Mr Greene.)
Quote:Technologically speaking we have been at a place where the needs of every man, woman and child could be met. The traditional monetary system is holding us back with the domination of fractional reserve banking, a debt based economy, big business, the military industrial complex, big pharmacy and dependence upon oil etc. I would deal all of these abuses a fatal blow by removing money. Everything would be free and no one would have to slave at a job they didn't want. All of your needs and desires could be met, drug use would be legalized, your energy source would be independent, democracy, religion, politics, and big business would be a thing of the past.
I would have to disagree with your premise here. Without money your technology base and society would evaporate faster than you can imagine and your Utopia would devolve into the stone age in short order. Money has developed in all known societies for the simple reason in that it fulfills a basic function:-
Money is a commodity of infinite exchange with no intrinsic value. It is a function of trade and has no meaning outside of that context.
Without trade there is no agricultural surplus and thus no civilisation. Far from your vision of some sort of drug den of layabouts I see a looming famine.
Quote:I don't understand why you'd come to a discussion forum, and then proceed to reap from visibility any voice that disagrees with you. If you're going to do that, why not just sit in front of a mirror and pat yourself on the back continuously?-Esquilax
Evolution - Adapt or be eaten.