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Money in its most basic form, is simply an IOU used to facilitate trade, instead of relying on a fractal of barter arrangements. Strip away all the systems and mechanisms we’ve surrounded it with, and I still don’t see how you are going to replace that core functionality until a star-trek style post-scarcity is actually achieved.
The role of money is to create a trustless system. I think a trustful system would better serve us. We can do this through democratic confederalism, which is a system where communities of responsibilities collaborate without the need of money.
The role of money is not about trust, it’s about simplifying exchanges. So if I’m a potato farmer in need of a chicken for dinner, I can just buy it from the chicken farmer. Without money, I would have to go to the chicken farmer, find out that he needs lumber, go to the sawmill, find out what he needs, and so-on until I find someone along the chain that actually needs my potatoes. That setup may be doable when we’re just talking about potatoes, but how are you going to scale that up and keep track of it amongst the 1000 or so people directly involved in making your car?
Regardless of what is the main role of money, it still has the trustless characteristics which means that it is playing into the hands of might and machine. The more a society revolves around money, the better the position for might and machine.
In opposition to might, I believe it is better to figure how we become as little dependent on money as possible.
Just note that I am an ancarist, I believe in a society without cars. Or for that matter, any production that would require the structure of the machine. So Id be against asphalt, fertilizers, and sement to mention a few.
I believe in a society without cars. Or for that matter, any production that would require the structure of the machine. So Id be against asphalt, fertilizers, and sement to mention a few.
Sounds like what you are describing is doing away with modernity altogether. And that’s where you lose me and probably most people on the planet. There’s no way I’m going to endorse reverting back subsistence farmers. We already know that doesn’t solve anything. Pre modern civilizations were far from peaceful utopias.
Money in its most basic form, is simply an IOU used to facilitate trade, instead of relying on a fractal of barter arrangements. Strip away all the systems and mechanisms we’ve surrounded it with, and I still don’t see how you are going to replace that core functionality until a star-trek style post-scarcity is actually achieved.
The role of money is to create a trustless system. I think a trustful system would better serve us. We can do this through democratic confederalism, which is a system where communities of responsibilities collaborate without the need of money.
The role of money is not about trust, it’s about simplifying exchanges. So if I’m a potato farmer in need of a chicken for dinner, I can just buy it from the chicken farmer. Without money, I would have to go to the chicken farmer, find out that he needs lumber, go to the sawmill, find out what he needs, and so-on until I find someone along the chain that actually needs my potatoes. That setup may be doable when we’re just talking about potatoes, but how are you going to scale that up and keep track of it amongst the 1000 or so people directly involved in making your car?
Regardless of what is the main role of money, it still has the trustless characteristics which means that it is playing into the hands of might and machine. The more a society revolves around money, the better the position for might and machine.
In opposition to might, I believe it is better to figure how we become as little dependent on money as possible.
Just note that I am an ancarist, I believe in a society without cars. Or for that matter, any production that would require the structure of the machine. So Id be against asphalt, fertilizers, and sement to mention a few.
Sounds like what you are describing is doing away with modernity altogether. And that’s where you lose me and probably most people on the planet. There’s no way I’m going to endorse reverting back subsistence farmers. We already know that doesn’t solve anything. Pre modern civilizations were far from peaceful utopias.