Money is Bad Mojo

Wow. Just wow.

Humans did just fine without money, that’s true. But how did they get things back then? By trading other things, and by killing eachother for it, or stealing it. There was just as much fighting (or even more) over possessions before money came around.

Money makes trading a whole lot simpler, and generally a lot more fair. Let’s say all you have that you can trade with is tomatoes. Now you’re gonna buy a tree or a dog, but you can’t afford a whole tree or a whole dog, meaning you could at best get a part of a dead one. Because you can’t save up the tomatoes, because they rot. Money doesn’t.
And not everybody considers those resources equally valuable, some people would pay a tree for a dog, others wouldn’t be willing to pay a whole tree unless they got a bunch of dogs. Etc. This makes for unfair trading.

Money makes it simpler, easier, and sets a price standard.
It wasn’t a world of generosity before money came around, it was a dog-eat-dog world. You can have that with or without money, and you can have generosity with or without money.

You don’t need money to get by. No, not even in today’s society. Money makes it easier, but you don’t need it. And if you can’t hunt/gather to get your own needs met, then YOU have put yourself at other people’s mercy. YOU did, not the money.

Money cannot do anything, cannot control anything, because it’s just a made up concept. It has no will, no power, it can’t do anything.
How you CHOOSE to deal with money can end you up in many different places, such as poverty or wealth. But money literally cannot control you.

Money doesn’t kill equality. Money is the same for everyone, and we all have the opportunities to make money. Most people rarely take these opportunities, but that’s their own decision, nobody else’s fault.

People CHOOSE to sell themselves for money, choose to slave away in factories and offices, wasting their time and energy for nickels and dimes, choose to let other people use them in exchange for money. It’s a choice they make. And if that’s not what they wanted, then it’s a fucking stupid choice.

Taking money out of the equation won’t change anything, because the problems don’t come from the money. The problems come from people.
Money is neither good nor bad, but it’s really fucking practical and makes many parts of life a whole lot easier.

And if you don’t like it, then go somewhere else where there is no money, where you can live in peace with your generous tribe.

If you just want to float along and passively receive, you have no right to make demans, you’ll have to take whatever shit they give you. That’s society. If you don’t like it, stop playing that game. You choose to live in a society like that.
It’s a deal that you’ve agreed to.
Why sign a deal if you don’t agree with the terms?

Take some fucking responsibility.

That’s what’s missing in this world. If people were responsible, there would be no problems with money, or with society at all.

Some people have more than others, and that’s because we’ve earned it. We have all earned our place in this world, by our actions, our choices, if you don’t like where you’re going then stop and change course. The hobo and the CEO have both earned their place in this world. They’ve both worked for it, worked to get where they ended up.

I like money, it’s really practical.

@dirukari3,

You have a very compassionate mindset for the human race, but money or the elimination of money will not create the vision you see.

What good is it?

It can be good in a lot of ways. But the one that a lot of people forget or don’t think about in the first place is, you vote with it. You can fund changing the way things are with it.

Small scale and big scale. Big scale, pour a lot of money into whatever efforts you want. Support people you want to support. It’s an instrument of change–whether it be good or bad, it’s what it is.

Small scale–well there’s this really awesome concept of voting for what you believe in with your money.

For instance, the health food industry. The rise in the availability of organic and all natural products/food over the last decade. Sure, some of it is mislabeled because some companies do still suck, but the main thing is there’s so much of it available these days.

Why? Because a lot of people started to only buy those things, and were genuinely concerned about healthy eating. Food is something we buy or grow or find or slaughter. If we buy it, that’s a lot of money invested in what we eat. Years of investment by mass amounts of people are going to alert bigger businesses that their products have to keep up with an increasingly selective consumer.

Voila, we now have many organic and healthy options everywhere. Even former McDonald’s executives are launching an operation with a healthy fast food chain in coming months.

That’s just one example of what money is good for. Money is the equivalent to so many intangible things. And it can be powerful.

It can even change some things in a big way, from the ground up.

Pretty cool actually.

I don`t believe that the problem is money, but greed.