TheBrutalTruth
Well-Known Member
Here are the problems that I think the post "monetary" society is failing to address adequately.
First and foremost they fail to address who is going to guard the guards? Who is going to prevent people from manipulating the system to their own ends?
Then there's the question of artificial and actual scarcity. About the desirability of some goods over other goods. I don't know about you people, but the thought of being stuck eating something like a soy burger turns my stomach.
So what do you do if there is a shortage? How are you going to stop people from hoarding food and supplies instead of just taking as much as they "need".
What are you going to do when people are taking advantage of scarcity of one good to trade these hoarded goods to other people for more of a different good.
Like, some one that has some lumber, or steel that normally is available and trading it for more of something else?
This post monetary system fails to adequately address the fact that goods can be given value and that those values can easily fluctuate so if a group of people collaborate to create artificial shortages they can manipulate the markets.
The problem isn't money, money is merely a convenient form of exchange that has value, because we believe it has value. It doesn't matter if you use clamshells, gold flakes, lead balls, cotton swabs, or sticks as currency. With the believed value money will always be money, and it will always be possible to change it for goods.
Hell, you don't even have to call it money, some one could easily start using pieces of steel as a currency with out calling it money, and it'd still be money.
First and foremost they fail to address who is going to guard the guards? Who is going to prevent people from manipulating the system to their own ends?
Then there's the question of artificial and actual scarcity. About the desirability of some goods over other goods. I don't know about you people, but the thought of being stuck eating something like a soy burger turns my stomach.
So what do you do if there is a shortage? How are you going to stop people from hoarding food and supplies instead of just taking as much as they "need".
What are you going to do when people are taking advantage of scarcity of one good to trade these hoarded goods to other people for more of a different good.
Like, some one that has some lumber, or steel that normally is available and trading it for more of something else?
This post monetary system fails to adequately address the fact that goods can be given value and that those values can easily fluctuate so if a group of people collaborate to create artificial shortages they can manipulate the markets.
The problem isn't money, money is merely a convenient form of exchange that has value, because we believe it has value. It doesn't matter if you use clamshells, gold flakes, lead balls, cotton swabs, or sticks as currency. With the believed value money will always be money, and it will always be possible to change it for goods.
Hell, you don't even have to call it money, some one could easily start using pieces of steel as a currency with out calling it money, and it'd still be money.
No argument there, but is there proof of his million$? I think he just wants to awaken the people.