Money is a medium of exchange. That's all it is. It facilitates the most basic economic exchange - barter - by increasing the coincidence of wants.
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Money is a medium of exchange. That's all it is. It facilitates the most basic economic exchange - barter - by increasing the coincidence of wants.
Well, at least until you get enough of it to buy slaves,....then doors open that are closed to us less fortunate types,...I wonder how the slaves like the 'economic exchange'?
OH, that's right, they falsely think themselves free.
Question your authorities, please.
I do. That doesn't change the fact that money is, was, and always will be a medium of exchange. Unless you think that voluntary exchanges of goods between people is somehow immoral, you'll be hard-pressed to demonstrate how making those exchanges easier is somehow immoral.
EDIT: Since I didn't make this clear, money should not be confused with currency. Money can be anything that is considered a store of value, among other qualities that separate it from, say, using ham sandwiches to facilitate exchange.
I'm saying that requiring your neighbor to (wage)slave for a crapitalust, or to require his neighbors to do so by operating his own business, makes the whole system involuntary.
It's your greed that enslaves you.
You think you can emulate the boys club at the top because that is the bs that they have fed you your whole life.
Open your mind to alternatives, if you only accept what you already have been fed by others you will never know if you have been fed a line,...
...I don't accept that I've been fed by others. I start from the individual and build a consistent moral framework from that. Voluntary exchange does not enslave anyone. Absent any other human being, an individual is still going to have to work in order to produce the necessary requirements for survival. Work will always have to be done, until we acquire the means, as someone else mentioned elsewhere, to literally create out of whole cloth those things that individuals require to survive. Once scarce resources are no longer scarce (though whether that could actually occur is a matter of debate), then ownership becomes meaningless.
However, until that time occurs and technology progress to the point of replicators able to grant us materials at will, scarce resources must be accounted for, and since no one will have access to everything at any given time, voluntary exchanges between individuals for resources that one party desires and the other party has in abundance will occur. Money facilitates that exchange, making it easier for wants to coincide and people to raise their standard of living.
I dunno if you realize this, but voluntary exchanges only happen when both parties expect to benefit from it. Unless force and coercion are used, individuals will not exchange anything, including their time, for anything else unless they stand to benefit from it.
nesting stops at six
Here is a link to material that you probably have not been fed,...
http://theanarchistlibrary.org
I don't have enough data to determine exactly what is what with you, but may I assume that the reading you have done was mostly in school, or at the behest of the school?
I can lead you to the materials that have me on this side of the issue.
Like I said, I start at the individual and work my way out with building a consistent moral framework. All that requires is reasoning and logic.
Ok, I agree, but learning from those that come before us saves us from a lot of trouble, look at the bears, if they could pass knowledge from great grandpa to great grandson the world would be a different place.
I hope you take some time to look through the library.
http://theanarchistlibrary.org