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Black-and-white cultural ideas like "socialism vs. capitalism" may be curious relics in a few centuries — think about the fact that even paper currency is a pre
by michaelpinto 14y ago
Black-and-white cultural ideas like "socialism vs. capitalism" may be curious relics in a few centuries — think about the fact that even paper currency is a pretty new thing (740 B.C. China) and you get a taste for how things can change (or look at the rise of credit cards over the last 50 years).
- tokenizer 14y agoNicely said. My favourite insights into this system were in deep space nine, where many people did work for a living, and earned latinum. I for one, am very much for sharing/pooling of necessary resources, but even in Star Trek, they didn't really explain the hows.