The world without money

Tony Broke

I have often contemplated this and i believe it would be good.

Why do we spend our lives running after money?

Dave!

Shut up, that's why.

Stercus Accidit

To live in a capitalist country.

ToeRag881

Well that would mean everyone would have to run off into the woods catchin and growin their own food. Or are you talking about some sort of communist ideals?

Nailz

A world without money!?! But then people wouldn't look up to me!!

RebelButtMunch

To destroy the concept of money, is going to take money --Stang.

Capt'n Midnight

we'd just use cards instead

Dudess

Tony Broke wrote: »

I have often contemplated this and i believe it would be good.

Why do we spend our lives running after money?

Cuz we need it as currency in exchange for goods and services. We'd be very limited (and poor) if we didn't seek it. The only way we wouldn't need money is if it wasn't our currency, but then something else would be.

ToeRag881

how much is the ace of spades worth?

sock.rocker*

Dave! wrote: »

Shut up, that's why.

+1

the_syco

Without money, we'd have to barter. Money is an advanced form of bartering, me thinks, and thus is better. Think about it: someone who works in a teleworking job... wtf?

Dude, f**k off back to whichever communist hole you came from, and stay there. Oh, wait a mo, they had money in communist Russia, it was just worth f**k all, wasn't it?

=-=

Actually, just shut up.

Holsten

We spend our time running after it cause money deffo = Happiness.

ToeRag881

Well a system were there was no "central bank" loaning us a currency, forming a perpetual debt, would appeal to me.

Pj!

There will always be money.
We use the paper stuff at the moment. If it goes tits up, we'll use food and useful stuff. Nuts maybe and precious metals and stones. Just like the good aul days.

This paper stuff mat be fairly feckin worthless in about 6 or 7 years if things stay going as they are.

Shryke

That's a real half baked thought. A capalist society isn't much better than any other but without any kind of ecenomic infrastructure we'd all be much worse off, even the people on the **** end of things. It's crude, it gives to the rich and pisses on the poor but it works.

Wazdakka

A world without money??

you sir made me drop my monocle in disgust..


*Swirls brandy*

You owe me a monocle by the way..

Jazzy

id so become mad max

f**ker marc, beating me home.... by a minute!! but i live further away then u... so therefore u suck

krpc

A world without money ... would give people nothing to complain about (i.e no money to go boozing, no money to smoke, no money to buy erm ... pleasure (if you are into that type of thing)).

Wazdakka

i-bloodhound wrote: »

A world without money ... would give people nothing to complain about (i.e no money to go boozing, no money to smoke, no money to buy erm ... pleasure (if you are into that type of thing)).

I disagree...

Assuming that Ireland is not also transported to the Caribbean or this global warming doesn't hurry the fcuk up..

krpc

Wazdakka wrote: »

I disagree...

Assuming that Ireland is not also transported to the Caribbean or this global warming doesn't hurry the fcuk up..

Good point. I stand corrected!

Joe Cool

Money can buy many peanuts.

Run_to_da_hills

The world without cash would be the one to be concerned about.
"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark" Revelation 13 vs 17

Wazdakka

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark" Revelation 13 vs 17

17 kicked 13's ass

nyarlothothep

I like your style of thinking. We are a child race though so we will be chasing after money for a while yet before we evolve.

Darragh29

... would be a poorer place.....:D

JC 2K3

Capitalism = slavery
Money = whip

kmart6

So we can afford expensive hookers and coke!

God damn mods get it for free though!:mad:

Frisbee

If anyone is sick of their money and wants to get rid of it I'll be a real nice guy and perform the arduos task of taking it off your hands.

Just PM me your bank details and we'll take it from there..

Darragh29

A few weeks ago, I packed a small haversack, threw a load of stuff in it and went up to the Dublin Mountains and walked for miles into the middle of nowhere, no traffic, no shops, no ATM machines, just me, my dog and some provisions. I lit myself a fire and cooked my grub and for the first time I'd say in year, I was completely relaxed... I can see the point of the OP, if I could live a life like that, I'd swop... Did you ever see the film "The Village"???

krpc

Darragh29 wrote: »

A few weeks ago, I packed a small haversack, threw a load of stuff in it and went up to the Dublin Mountains and walked for miles into the middle of nowhere, no traffic, no shops, no ATM machines, just me, my dog and some provisions. I lit myself a fire and cooked my grub and for the first time I'd say in year, I was completely relaxed... I can see the point of the OP, if I could live a life like that, I'd swop... Did you ever see the film "The Village"???

I did, excellent movie. Your story sounds more like Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Nerin

It'd be nice. River cottage style,or hunter gatherer style,or something a bit of both?

cHaTbOx

If we had no money how would my wallet crush you:D
And I'm a student:pac:

Actually I am dreadfully poor please send money to AIB bank number 0813411

QuadLeo

Dudess wrote: »

Cuz we need it as currency in exchange for goods and services. We'd be very limited (and poor) if we didn't seek it. The only way we wouldn't need money is if it wasn't our currency, but then something else would be.

Exactly

We'll always need something to show our worth/value. If there's no money we'll just end up using another token that's rare like sea shells or pearls, sega dreamcasts or wispa bars, whatever. Money has worth because it's availability is regulated by the central bank. Pearls have worth because it's availability is regulated by nature and difficulty to acquire. We will always need something to use as a reference to normalise value for trade etc...
If you know what I mean

QuadLeo

random chatbox wrote: »

If we had no money how would my wallet crush you:D
And I'm a student:pac:

Actually I am dreadfully poor please send money to AIB bank number 0813411

Account details logged and forwarded to the president of Nigeria. He promises to lodge €2million into your account if you just give him €2000 up front.... Seriously. It works.

Darragh29

Nerin wrote: »

It'd be nice. River cottage style,or hunter gatherer style,or something a bit of both?

Yeah river cottage style way up in the hills away from everyone, miles and miles away...

phantom_lord

Tony Broke wrote: »

I have often contemplated this and i believe it would be good.

lol, that's all u can come up after thinking about this a lot?

phantom_lord

Darragh29 wrote: »

A few weeks ago, I packed a small haversack, threw a load of stuff in it and went up to the Dublin Mountains and walked for miles into the middle of nowhere, no traffic, no shops, no ATM machines, just me, my dog and some provisions. I lit myself a fire and cooked my grub and for the first time I'd say in year, I was completely relaxed... I can see the point of the OP, if I could live a life like that, I'd swop... Did you ever see the film "The Village"???

so eh, where'd u get the haversack, the load of stuff, and the grub to cook?

cHaTbOx

QuadLeo wrote: »

Account details logged and forwarded to the president of Nigeria. He promises to lodge €2million into your account if you just give him €2000 up front.... Seriously. It works.

Thank you kind sir.A world without money ,It's the nothingness... the whiteness... the endless... ness. Stretching on beyond the human imagination. Desolation of the soul. Oh my Gooooooooooood!

Nerin

Darragh29 wrote: »

Yeah river cottage style way up in the hills away from everyone, miles and miles away...

nice. Still though,it would be nice to be able to barter etc. Maybe we should all move to dorset somehow i doubt it would work for us like it does for him.

Smart Bug

A world without money? Goddam hippays. Whatever would I snort my coca bean through if not my tightly rolled 100 Euro bill?

Capt'n Midnight

They tried it along with a few other social experiments in Cambodia a quarter of the population died. The death rate was higher for those who were educated or wore glasses or weren't manual labourers , very few boardsies would have survived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge_period_(1975-1979)