"I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet. If you're wondering what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I'll give you a hint... it has to do with Creating and Sharing." Bill Hicks

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[–]christine_grab 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lately, I have been thinking about how the only way to fix society's problems is to change the way money works. We already have engines that run on water, but it was shelved because it would seriously threaten Big Oil. We have light bulbs that never burn out, but they will never be produced because they can't make money long-term. Nowadays, most products have deliberately designed functional obsolescence to ensure that we keep buying said product. I have no answers about what a new money system would look like, but there has to be a way to distribute money as a reward for making things that will make the world a better place instead of our current system, which rewards us for making things that pollute, fill up our landfills, encourage corruption and exploitation, etc.

[–]fred_red_beans 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Money is just a placeholder for trust between people. It's a blind trust system, as in you give someone your money (time, labor, resources) and you don't know what they may do with it. If we were to not use money, we would have to go through the process of communicating and learning to trust each other rather than just isolating in our respective homes. cars. jobs etc; it would not be a small process. This blind trust was supposed to be one of the "features" of using a currency system, but has rather just enabled us to be controlled by those who control the monetary system.

At least libertarians, while still advocating for the tokenized currency system, believe in a free market where individuals can transact freely with each other without having to pay homage to "the owners" through taxes etc.

[–]christine_grab 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't know much about libertarianism, but I thought it was all about private ownership and paying money to the owners? The primary motive is still profit, right? It's the profit motive that I think is broken; that people will not make things that are good for the world if there is no profit in it for them.