Money is the root of evil - Page 4

Margaret Pilkington · 12-07-2011, 14:36

I think that is some ways we have moved on from carrying money...OK, we haven't done away with money, we still use financial transactions to live...but we already have moved on from carrying gold/silver coins to notes...which are promisory....and a further move hs been with debit cards...so no actual money changes hands, just the figures on the balance sheet change.

Men have always been paid in some way for their efforts(even slaves were given bed and board.....even if it was very basic).

As for the natural resources running out. They will do someday in the future.
I am sure I read something (it was a long time ago, so forgive me if I cannot tell you where I read it) that the oil producing countries had stifled the development of engines that didn't rely on oil/petrol to make them run....and before anyone tells me that oil isn't just used to propel vehicles...it is in a vast number of things that we use every day...yes I do know this....but I feel that, if allowed, scientists can find other ways of producing the things that we currently rely on oil for the production of.

As for the power to run our homes.........I don't get the wind farm stuff.....or the solar power stuff.

We are an island, the tides of the sea hold a great amount of energy......why can this power not be harnessed to produce electricity.
The winds don't always blow,the sun doesn't always shine, but the tides are constant.....and the energy is free(OK the development of the equipment to harness the power may not be)...and at least we would be self sufficient for this type of energy. And it would be GREEN energy.

jaysay · 12-07-2011, 18:00

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Originally Posted by Pudwoppa

True. I'm not suggesting that money isn't currently necessary. Or isn't necessary in any society to facilitate a stage in it's progression. But I can't believe that the human race isn't capable of a system better than that which we have now. Even if I can't predict what that will be.

At any period in history, people couldn't foresee the changes in front of them. Yet their way of life slowly disappeared and a new one that they could never have dreamt of slowly took it's place. Some of these changes were relatively small, and some were huge. A change away from a financial system would obviously be a pretty big one - but that doesn't make it impossible.

If the world as we know it is the best we can achieve, then we've failed as a species. Apologies if I'm getting a bit high and mighty

Apology not excepted

DaveinGermany · 12-07-2011, 18:18

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

As for the power to run our homes.........I don't get the wind farm stuff.....or the solar power stuff.

We are an island, the tides of the sea hold a great amount of energy......why can this power not be harnessed to produce electricity.
The winds don't always blow,the sun doesn't always shine, but the tides are constant.....and the energy is free(OK the development of the equipment to harness the power may not be)...and at least we would be self sufficient for this type of energy. And it would be GREEN energy.

Agree wholeheartedly, I think I also may have mentioned something similar elsewhere. Surely with todays technology & materials something can be done or is this again due to big business, shareholders & dubious deals ?

Margaret Pilkington · 12-07-2011, 18:28

If we can see it then surely those with a greater education can see it too...therefore it leads me to believe that it is indeed due to big business, dubous deals and the fact that the oil/gas producers wouldn't like it because it might just take some of their revenue/business.
It is pretty hard to draw any other conclusion.

garinda · 12-07-2011, 18:44

I think some of this is just normal business practice.

If you have a captive customer base, you don't need to have a Sale.

There are probably all kinds of new technologies and products being held back, to maximise profit.

Money makes the world go round...at a cost.