A world without money.

[Mechablob]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

So, we'd not only have to be intelligent, healthy, moral, and with ample resources, but we'd also need to be okay with the notion of everyone having the same purchasing power regardless of effort. We'd have to be okay with potential freeloaders. Alternatively, we could simply NOT desire these things and only desire things that require little effort to develop/maintain/create/etc.

We ultimately have to start invoking a lot of assumptions for our society to operate without any sort of money requirements.

I do agree with your post completely, and even share the same view (I'm sort of trying to keep impartial about the topic; trying to acknowledge both sides of the argument). I reply to your post though as to say you could argue that many people have already gained their luxuries (TV, computer, cars) with minimal time at jobs that may require little skill. Or with no jobs at all. The people with no jobs at all, some of these people are already potential freeloaders - and even though some people leech from the taxpayer's money - as frustrating as it is - we end up having to tolerate it.

Although, I see there being much of a change in this if we had a world with no money, maybe strain created from people not earning anything from hard labour and seeing these people gain such luxuries for little to no work - I guess a much larger amount of frustration would form, really.