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Would it be possible.......

  • 16-08-2012 10:35PM
    #1
    crackcrack30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭crackcrack30


    (To have)
    A society where everyone worked for free....:eek: ..but everything you needed was free...?

    A kind of barter but on a country wide 21st centuary scale......

    Cons - we'd have to limit ourselves to our own produce.......maybe

    Pros - this country would be a mecca for tourists.....


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  • #2
    marshbaboon
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    Yes. If we exported all the travellers to wolf island.


  • #3
    mackg
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    Why would it be a mecca for tourists?


  • #4
    GarIT
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    What you propose is just communism in an extreme form.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    No.


  • #6
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Deleted User wrote: »
    No.


    I'll plow your lawn if you give me a shandy ? i'd say it could work ..but not with such a negative attitude


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  • #7
    Eden3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Eden3


    Communism ... don't work! Leads to no moral upbringing, anti-socialism (obviously) and an unnatural need/urge for material wealth, which in turn leads to crime ... at all costs ...! Next idea .......


  • #8
    antodeco
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    I may as well be working for free with the amount of poxy tax I pay


  • #9
    HalloweenJack
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    How exactly would things be free?

    We'd be sending ourselves back to the Stone Age, imo.


  • #10
    Eden3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Eden3


    antodeco wrote: »
    I may as well be working for free with the amount of poxy tax I pay

    Same as that ..!


  • #11
    crackcrack30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭crackcrack30


    (Leaving cert) Communisim to me was possibly more agricultural, and controled by dictators ect, but surely thats not the only model out there....
    especially that we are 100 years wiser?....:o

    I think money has failed 95% (odd) of the worlds population... dont ask where i got tht from.....loose change maybe....


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  • #12
    foxyboxer
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    Is this like some sh1tty Justin Timberlake movie where 'time' is a currency?


  • #13
    Eathrin
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    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    How exactly would things be free?

    We'd be sending ourselves back to the Stone Age, imo.

    I suppose we would aim to be self-sufficient and export our excess and use the money to import necessaries.

    But in reality communism doesn't work because some people are more equal than other people;)


  • #14
    Zomg Okay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭Zomg Okay


    crackcrack30 wrote: »
    Pros - this country would be a mecca for tourists.....

    If everything is free, how are tourists a pro? They wouldn't provide an income by buying things or renting out hotel rooms, etc. because we'd be just giving them it for nothing.


  • #15
    crackcrack30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭crackcrack30


    Eden3 wrote: »
    Communism ... don't work! Leads to no moral upbringing, anti-socialism (obviously) and an unnatural need/urge for material wealth, which in turn leads to crime ... at all costs ...! Next idea .......

    Not much different to what we have now.....:confused:


  • #16
    Lando Griffin
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    Thinly veiled I am making so much money it no longer brings the happiness I want type thread.


  • #17
    Faith+1
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    Sounds like the Venus Project! Is that you Jacque?


  • #18
    crackcrack30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭crackcrack30


    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    Thinly veiled I am making so much money it no longer brings the happiness I want type thread.

    Fail...........


  • #19
    Temptamperu
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    Eden3 wrote: »
    Communism ... don't work! Leads to no moral upbringing, anti-socialism (obviously) and an unnatural need/urge for material wealth, which in turn leads to crime ... at all costs ...! Next idea .......

    And, Capitalism never caused any of those things?


  • #20
    crazy cabbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭crazy cabbage


    On a small scale yes it would. On a large scale i a not sure. I would support this 100% though. I wouldn't mind working for free if i was provided with everything that i needed to survive. It would mean that people would only work 20ish hours a week and have much more time on there hands


  • #21
    Toby Take a Bow
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    GarIT wrote: »
    What you propose is just communism in an extreme form.

    No it's not. Even the most extreme communism had some form of private enterprise and all operated on a currency system.
    Eden3 wrote: »
    Communism ... don't work! Leads to no moral upbringing, anti-socialism (obviously) and an unnatural need/urge for material wealth, which in turn leads to crime ... at all costs ...! Next idea .......

    Communism leads to anti-socialism? Hmmm.


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  • #22
    frozenfrozen
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    Who would bother their hole studying to be a doctor if they made the same money as someone doing something easy?


  • #23
    Toby Take a Bow
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    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    Who would bother their hole studying to be a doctor if they made the same money as someone doing something easy?

    People who wanted to be doctors?


  • #24
    crazy cabbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭crazy cabbage


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    Who would bother their hole studying to be a doctor if they made the same money as someone doing something easy?

    People whould do what they enjoy. If you enjoy working as a teacher that is what you would do. You would teach 20ish hours a week. You would go to shops where you would take whatever you need.
    If i like working with wood i would make stuff with wood. Anything that i dont need for myself i would give to other people. in return i can go to teachers class and eduate myself further.

    It is a system that if you could get a whole town and surrounding area to adopt would work. They would be self sufficent in theory. Everyone works at what they like to work at and whatever they dont need for themselves would be given to others

    At least this is how i think it would work. OP might have slightly different ideas

    It does have a few flaws but so does every system imo


  • #25
    GarIT
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    If everything was free could I not just have everything?


  • #26
    crazy cabbage
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    GarIT wrote: »
    If everything was free could I not just have everything?

    no


  • #27
    GarIT
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    Toby Take a Bow wrote: »
    No it's not. Even the most extreme communism had some form of private enterprise and all operated on a currency system.

    Even with this idea there would have to be currency or everyone could just have everything.

    No private enterprise would be the reason for the word extreme before communism.


  • #28
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    crazy cabbage wrote: »
    no

    Why not its free, who can stop me?


  • #29
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    crazy cabbage wrote: »
    It would mean that people would only work 20ish hours a week and have much more time on there hands

    Why would people in this system work 20 hours when people in similar systems worked up to (and possibly more than) 70 hours.


  • #30
    crazy cabbage
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    GarIT wrote: »
    Why not its free, who can stop me?

    free implies that things cost money. things dont cost money becouse there is no money in this society so therefore cant be free. the word free implies that there is things that arn't free which there isn't.

    understand? ;)


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  • #31
    NegativeCreep
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    What would the incentive be to even have a job then?


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