Given the mess the financial world is in, are their any workable alternatives to money?
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No. Why would anyone have any motivation to change?
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you can live off the land but it's not easy
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Well we could go back to swapping items of similar value. But it would almost certainly eventually result in people using standardised items of exactly the same value to each other, otherwise known as money.
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Honour and respect
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I don't think so in the near term. Supposedly, to veer off into the realms of fiction, they dispensed with money as we know it in the world of Star Trek although they don't go into a lot of detail as to how.
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(Original post by Aliccam)
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No but seriousely the mess of the financial world is not reflective of the failings of money . It meets the objectives of being a means of payment, a store of value etc. The problems of the financial sector are more to do with the failings of people trying to make money( the people in finance, mortgage markets) ,those who were spending it, taking out mortgages borrowing it heavily(consumers) and the people who were supposed to be in charge and who affect money supply (governments, central banks). The pipes are broken and need fixing not the water -
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(Original post by TurboCretin)
None that could sustain society as it has developed since currency's invention. We depend too heavily on efficiency in trade to return to a bartering society, and society itself has become too complex. The advance in standard of living has arisen from increases in productivity; the increases in productivity have arisen from greater and greater specialisation/division of labour. This system relies on an efficient medium of exchange to convert most or all of a man's niche produce to other things which he needs for survival. Imagine people paying quarterly gas bills with 45 chickens/2300 safety pins/24 minutes of legal services, depending on their trade. Simply wouldn't work.
The main problem with the money system now is that there is little relation between productivity and reward. -
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(Original post by usamakhanlodhi)
hugs?
No but seriousely the mess of the financial world is not reflective of the failings of money . It meets the objectives of being a means of payment, a store of value etc. The problems of the financial sector are more to do with the failings of people trying to make money( the people in finance, mortgage markets) ,those who were spending it, taking out mortgages borrowing it heavily(consumers) and the people who were supposed to be in charge and who affect money supply (governments, central banks). The pipes are broken and need fixing not the water -
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(Original post by Aliccam)
Given the mess the financial world is in, are their any workable alternatives to money?
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(Original post by Aliccam)
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Yes, it's called a resource based economy.
http://thevenusproject.com/the-venus...-based-economy
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- 23-03-2013 13:40
There aren't. You're just essentially still exchanging one denomination to another.
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Could we not exchange man hours of productivity for the things we need?
The main problem with the money system now is that there is little relation between productivity and reward. -
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- 23-03-2013 13:46
Always means giving ultimate control to someone.
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(Original post by Aliccam)
Could we not exchange man hours of productivity for the things we need?
The main problem with the money system now is that there is little relation between productivity and reward.
I don't see how you could enforce such a system.
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