What about Star Trek society? Read this for example<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/lessons-from-star-trek/">http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/lessons-from-star-trek/</a></div><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>Giovanni<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">2011/11/11 Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> 2011/11/11 Giovanni Santostasi <<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>><br>
>><br>
>> Then money is the problem.<br>
<br>
Money is merely a tool that frees us from the burden of finding barter<br>
partners. If you want to go all the way to a system where nobody owns<br>
anything, we can discuss that. Some island systems in Tonga and Tahiti<br>
as well as some hunter gatherer cultures allegedly got past ownership,<br>
and simply shared all they had.<br>
<br>
This is the partial goal of some in the open source movement, as well<br>
as wikileaks and other parts of cyber space. You can't really<br>
effectively get rid of money without also getting rid of the concept<br>
of ownership.<br>
<br>
Now, if you get rid of the concept of ownership... you have to go all<br>
the way, and this eventually means that you cannot claim ownership of<br>
the sub-strait that you use to compute. That is currently your brain.<br>
Some day, it may be a different medium, and you can't own that either.<br>
<br>
A true and full form of collectivism, where we become the Borg, where<br>
we lose all individuality and ego is the only alternative to money<br>
that really makes any sense.<br>
<br>
I get the idea that most of the people on this list are fierce<br>
individualists, and want to remain as individuals. So I don't think,<br>
in the end, many of the list members will go along with "let's get rid<br>
of money"...<br>
<br>
On the other hand, you could probably find a lot of people who would<br>
go along with let's get rid of the federal reserve, or let's get rid<br>
of fractionalized banking... or other aspects of our financial<br>
systems. But that is not money. Money is a much more primitive beast<br>
than that.<br>
<br>
> I think human nature is the problem.<br>
<br>
Here Dave is clearly onto something... :-) But how much of our human<br>
nature do we really want to give up? Are we really better off without<br>
anger? Are we better off without jealousy? Could we throw out<br>
religion? Get rid of the concept that other people somehow "belong" to<br>
us (as in a "committed" relationship)? What do we want to lose in<br>
order to gain the most. And what is most important to gain?<br>
<br>
Just adding more intelligence without any other adjustments seems to<br>
be a rather limiting choice... likely to lead to a really bad outcome.<br>
But is altruism the answer? Is compassion the answer? More empathy?<br>
Love?<br>
<br>
These are not easy questions, and I don't expect glib answers that<br>
will solve the real problems this kind of thing brings up.<br>
<br>
-Kelly<br>
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