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- In order to live, one needs money - In order to obtain money, one needs to work (except for the lucky too few) Thus work needs to exist to provide people wi
by curiousgal 10y ago
- In order to live, one needs money
- In order to obtain money, one needs to work (except for the lucky too few)
Thus work needs to exist to provide people with money, to the point of creating bullshit jobs if needs be.
You can't remove jobs if it so directly means no more revenue for those people unless you introduce something like basic income.
- 6d6b73 10y agoMoney is just a way to exchange time and resources between people. Money is not needed to live.
- valvar 10y agoBut it is. You need those resources and a way to predictably obtain them. The system of currency is the only known way to achieve this, especially in our modern society. Previously, it may have been possible for a large number of individuals to live an agricultural lifestyle where they produced almost all of the resources they required. That would be impossible today, unless the world population (fractal distribution generally applies to smaller geographical divisions) were reduced to less than 1% of its current size. The other downsides of such a scenario are also easy to imagine, I am sure.