So we had a thread yesterday about removing money from an economic/social system altogether. Rationale for this can be found in the OP of
The most common (weak) arguments against this in the thread can be summed up by;
Although some good points were also raised. It seems the biggest problem/refutation was that our current socio-economic structure would have to be TOTALLY reorganized, beyond recognition. I'm not sure it's possible, but I also haven't been convinced it's impossible. I can't decide if it could work, or if it's another "I don't like reality and I wish it could work differently because of muh feels" type movement. It is difficult to conceive of admittedly, because we're so entrenched in the current monetary system.
An user posted this video. What do you guys think of this? Is it hippy dippy bullshit, is it possible, could it be made to work? I'm on the fence at the moment. Not sure if the embed worked so youtube.com
Business, production, education, etc would all be done VERY differently. Good arguments like were made in the other thread, but if you change the system as dramatically as Michael Tellinger is suggesting, classical economics (which grew up under a monetary system and is thus constrained by its ideology) would basically become obsolete.
Please watch the video before commenting, it's only 15 minutes long. If it survives Holla Forumss collective scrutiny, this could be based. If not well, we can discard it.
It turns out this is a worldwide movement. I'm suspicious of their "Unity and higher consciousness for a new world" slogan, but the idea/structure itself seems sound. They seem like leftards in morals but their economic system is new so we should give it fair trial. Could potentially be adopted by right wing nationalists.
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