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The idea of work, money and paying for things is obsolete and becoming dangerous. It needs replacing with a non-awful allocation economy.
by JulianMorrison 12y ago
The idea of work, money and paying for things is obsolete and becoming dangerous. It needs replacing with a non-awful allocation economy.
- kylebrown 12y agoWhat are the better alternatives for allocating resources? Any distribution mechanism will need a standard metric for measuring and dividing piles of resources. Money is that metric. I do agree with you about work though. Assuming a future government structure similar to our current one, a humane economic policy will probably need to provide some form of universal basic income.
- harperlee 12y agoI'm still not convinced that work is obsolete or becoming dangerous... As long as humans have desires (whatever weird e.g. I want my hair to be the bluest and spikiest), and as long as these desires there are not the same for everyone, there will be incentives to exchange value, and while money is the unit of measure, work is the effort directed to get that value for you. Also, the side effect of all this is that me make things, so is work dangerous? Perhaps /we/ are, as work is a byproduct of our way of being.
- marknutter 12y agoHow then do you propose we assign value to things?
- harperlee 12y agoIf money is three things (unit of measure, holder of value, and method of exchange), perhaps there is a way of dividing these in two or more subsets. Measure and exchange seem difficult to separate; perhaps not being able to "hold" money could be interesting.