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

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Sat Nov 12 17:07:48 UTC 2011


>From: Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>
>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
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>Subject: Re: [ExI] Money and Human Nature (was Re: Capitalism, anti capitalism, emotional arousal)
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>On 11 November 2011 21:55, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>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.
>>
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>Money evolved quite a lot along history, as shown for instance by Money as Debt, 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.

I would never suggest abolishing money altogether. The only way I could envisage it even being possible is a giant barter matching database that matched sellers to buyers and allowed multilateral trades.The website on the Internet would Ebay and Amazon together to shame. Of course I would still certainly miss greenbacks.
 
Stuart LaForge

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -Clay Shirky




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