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Money is a mechanism for keeping tabs on how much the human civilization owes to any particular person or entity. It's imperfect, sure. But it's what we decided
by scotty79 3mo ago
Money is a mechanism for keeping tabs on how much the human civilization owes to any particular person or entity. It's imperfect, sure. But it's what we decided to go with. If you don't have money, society just decided (using its mechanisms) it pretty much owes you nothing. So your demands are disregarded.
- nathan_compton 3mo agoWho is the "we" who decided to go with it?
- scotty79 3mo agoSum of all homo sapiens.
- nathan_compton 3mo agoI can't remember taking a worldwide vote on the subject.
- scotty79 3mo agoThere's nothing innately democratic in our species. Democracy is just one of the mechanisms that we sometimes use to make some decisions. We use it way less than money mechanism as you probably noticed.