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Originally Posted by garinda
You suggest society may be better without a financial system
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Yes - it maybe better or maybe not. All I said is that it is likely to change.
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Originally Posted by garinda
but don't say why, or how it could work.
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Yes - I wasn't offering a way forward. I simply said it's likely to happen.
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Originally Posted by garinda
Primitive man did live like this.
You fend purely for yourself, otherwise you perish.
Since every unconnected society in the world evolved into seeing a bartering system afforded more freedom, the chances of us ever having a non-monetarist system again are minute. If we did, it would be a new Dark Ages.
If someone has something you want, and they are happy to give it to you, in exchange for other goods, or the means to buy other goods, that's civilisation.
If someone has something you want, and you club them over the head and take it, that isn't.
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Again the binary viewpoint. Black or white. Civilisation or anarchy. I don't subscribe to that.