[ExI] Money and Human Nature (was Re: Capitalism, anti capitalism, emotional arousal)

[Stefano Vaj]

On 11 November 2011 21:55, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Money is merely a tool that frees us from the burden of finding barter
> partners. If you want to go all the way to a system where nobody owns
> anything, we can discuss that. Some island systems in Tonga and Tahiti
> as well as some hunter gatherer cultures allegedly got past ownership,
> and simply shared all they had.
>

Money evolved quite a lot along history, as shown for instance by Money as
Debt <http://www.moneyasdebt.net/>, as well as those in control thereof and
its social function. I am not sure that some kind of "money", probably in
the form of accounting units records, should not be maintained, and in fact
it was even during the most radical socialist experiments, but this leaves
open to debate most significant issues affecting it.

Ownership is an altogether different issue. The members of the ruling class
in Sparta, eg, had no personal ownership whatsoever (contrary to lower
classes).

Yet, they certainly did not share all they had with anybody, and had a
rather strong sense of their individuality - eg, they were certainly not
unconcerned by things such as personal honor or ambition.

-- 
Stefano Vaj

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