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Originally Posted by garinda
No, you talked of a 'society without money' not being a 'regression'.
Utopia.
Every unconnected society that's ever existed on this planet, have eventually evolved some sort of monetarist/bartering system, when they've evolved from being hunter gatherers.
It's what made us civilised, rather than just providing food and shelter for ourselves.
Make enough pots to sell, and hopefully you'll have earned enough money to feed yourself when you're old, and racked with arthritis, and no longer able to work.
A place with no money, where we only provide for our own immediate needs, in a survival of the fittest, dog eat dog world, wouldn't be some utopian idyll...it would be a nightmare.
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Again, you've misinterpreted my point
Perhaps I'm being unclear.
I neither praised nor shunned a monetary system or lack thereof. I simply said that thinking the current system is the 'be all and end all' is naive.
I also specifically said it may be worse than what we have now. Hardly a vision of Utopia.
I agree that money has benefited society and contributed to the birth of civilisation, but I just see it as a stepping stone onto something else rather than the finality.