Montag, 11. August 2014
Money versus Services
Most theories that deal with the abolition of money have a communist background. However, there exist a bunch of newer ideas that are driven by technology. I will elaborate.
Historically, money has been introduced in order to solve market place problems such as how many chicken can I get for pig. Aristotle already critisized that money lending reduces the importance of real life applications and leads to a guild of people who can benefit from money as a virtual marketplace. Thus, real goods and real labor loose importance.
There is no use of repeating all Marx ever said on this issue. These ideas are well known and many reasons exist why they haven't suceeded. The main argument in favor of state liberalism is that people are motivated to work hard in order to earn their living.
If you look at the possibilities nowadays, there is no reason to use money as a means to solve the market place problem. It is feasible to have a virtual marketplace that uses game patterns to rate values of goods or services. Moreover, it would be possible to fulfill basic needs by introducing a start capital everybody has at the beginning of a month.
It would still be the task of the state to supervise the system and define the constants that rate a doctor's virtual purchasing power in relation to other occupations.
This would clean out the virtual money market. Labor and skills would be the currency of tommorrow.
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Who wants to destroy the capitalist who must destroy their currency. (1870 - 1924), actually Vladimir Ulyanov,
AntwortenLöscheninteresting, but who is the capitalist exactly?
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