[Cavernio]

Just more of what everyone else has been saying. If we just eliminate money without some other sort of system to dole out goods, people will still want payment for things. Literally paying someone in peanuts and cheese and cows and chickens and then a song is rather...odd. Money just makes all those transactions a lot easier and make much more sense, and gives perhaps a better value of what things are worth.

As other people have pointed out, money also gives incentive. This is where I think money fails though, personally. If someone needs money as an incentive to do something, then they shouldn't be doing that thing anyways. If this means that most people won't work, then so be it. Most people won't sit on their beds the rest of their lives either though. Unfortunately you can't really know someone's true drive to do one thing versus another in a society centered around money. Like, if we were to switch over to a money-free society, some sort of communism or something, initially, people would be lazy. I think that over a few years, and definitely over a generation, people would adjust their values, their ideals, and place more weight on things like honor, friendship, duty, doing the right thing, and what they like to do, in order to do things. Like I said earlier, people aren't just going to lie around and do nothing. Some people see this as ridiculous and not probable, but I disagree. For example, most people on this cite don't get paid much to run it, but they still do. I'll stay late at work, when they need someone, not because I need the money, but because I feel bad for the people who have to work short-staffed, and for those people who have to wait in line a long time. Sure, money's nice, but is only one of the reasons I'll stay.

But then there's also how our resources are going to get divided. This I think could be a real issue, especially if people are used to being greedy, (which they would be if we were to switch over from capitalism), and is also a more serious issue when there's not enough of a necessary resource to go around. I do, however, think that outside of healthcare, society and the globe possess enough resources to house, feed and clothe everyone, and give every household cellphones and laptops and TVs. Of course, we likely wouldn't have so many of these things being made, because I think that most factory work is not what most people would choose to do. I suppose we could also have some sort of strategy for rotating the ****ty jobs (that don't require a whole lot of skill) to different people if we wanted to get that organized though too.

I think we're fast coming up, or have reached, a point in human history where adopting some sort of communism would be very feasible. The internet makes the exchange of anything that can be transferred digitally so easy, and that basically means infinite digital resources for everyone. In fact, there's still issues with how to fit the internet into capitalism successfully, a task which, if you think about it, really is ludicrous. We only do it because we're set on being capitalist, and its not fair for people who used to make a living doing something suddenly lose it. We DO have enough food to feed everyone, and I already opt to work less and play more, just because of the multitude of things we produce for fun.

Also, can we please ban justaguy or at least delete his posts or something?