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Originally Posted by Pudwoppa
I think it's strange how people refer to a society without money as a regression. Maybe it could be a step forward rather than a step back: a natural and meaningful progression. Talking about it in a derogatory sense only shows how engrained our reliance on a financial system has become. Maybe future thinking or technology will create the possibility of moving past a money based society whilst maintaining our current standard of life; or even improving it. Who knows.
We are not the finality of human evolution or technology - as with every other generation we will be surpassed. Many aspects of our way of life and thinking will almost certainly be obsolete one day, and thinking otherwise is delusional. Permanence is temporary given a long enough timescale.
I have to say though, thinking that a lack of money would solve all of the worlds problems is a bit naive if I may be so bold. There will always be people who will take advantage of any system and people who fall victim to it - that's just life.
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Care to give an example of this Utopia?
A caring society, that exists/existed, without some sort of monetarist/bartering system.
There wasn't one.
If you were too old, weak, or infirm to hunt, or to gather for yourself, you died of old age...at thirty seven.
