The world without money

Tony Broke · 17-09-2008 11:28PM #1

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

Why do we spend our lives running after money?

Dave! · 17-09-2008 11:29PM

Shut up, that's why.

Stercus Accidit · 17-09-2008 11:30PM

To live in a capitalist country.

ToeRag881 · 17-09-2008 11:30PM

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 · 17-09-2008 11:31PM

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

RebelButtMunch · 17-09-2008 11:32PM

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

Capt'n Midnight · 17-09-2008 11:33PM

we'd just use cards instead

Dudess · 17-09-2008 11:34PM

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 · 17-09-2008 11:34PM

how much is the ace of spades worth?

sock.rocker* · 17-09-2008 11:34PM

Dave! wrote: »

Shut up, that's why.

+1

the_syco · 17-09-2008 11:35PM

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 · 17-09-2008 11:38PM

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

ToeRag881 · 17-09-2008 11:41PM

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

Pj! · 17-09-2008 11:42PM

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 · 17-09-2008 11:43PM

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 · 17-09-2008 11:45PM

A world without money??

you sir made me drop my monocle in disgust..

*Swirls brandy*

You owe me a monocle by the way..

Jazzy · 17-09-2008 11:46PM

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 · 17-09-2008 11:49PM

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 · 17-09-2008 11:53PM

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 · 17-09-2008 11:54PM

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 · 17-09-2008 11:55PM

Money can buy many peanuts.

Run_to_da_hills · 17-09-2008 11:59PM

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 · 18-09-2008 12:20AM

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 · 18-09-2008 12:50AM

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 · 18-09-2008 12:52AM

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

JC 2K3 · 18-09-2008 12:58AM

Capitalism = slavery
Money = whip

kmart6 · 18-09-2008 12:59AM

So we can afford expensive hookers and coke!

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

Frisbee · 18-09-2008 01:04AM

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 · 18-09-2008 01:09AM

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 · 18-09-2008 01:11AM

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 · 18-09-2008 01:13AM

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

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