Wednesday, April 15, 2009

What if there were no money?

Think about it.

What if we had no money?
What if we relied on the goodness and honest hard work of people to do everything they do now- growing, creating, selling, leading, learning, providing- not for the money, but to keep our society well maintained?
What if all we relied on was each other to get the things we need without worrying "Can I afford it?"

People might say its downright socialist, but imagine how much better we'd be off. There would be no poor because everyone would have access to food, and no sick because medicine would be more easily accessible. And if everyone did their jobs but with the motivation that they are doing a service to everyone who requires them, then nobody would have to stress about financial problems because money wouldn't exist because everyone is working to supply and aid everyone else. I guess you could see it as each person is being supported or supporting someone else so that, in this case, everyone in our country would be linked together in support.

But of course, this could never happen. There are people that are greedy or yearn for the luxurious and expensive, and with my theory everyone would be able to access the same stuff, therefore no one would be more advanced in social class than the other. Now that I think about it, it sounds a little bit communist...

1 comment:

  1. I think that the concept of extrinsic motivation is completely decreasing our human advantage to self actualization. We work because we earn money, we read because we have to, we study because we get the grade, we say or do it so that others will think higher of us. All of these concepts completely blow my mind and broaden my perspective to the fact that we may never reach the point of actualization. Absorbed in the most selfish society of all, humans wouldn't survive without competition or the gain of popularity.
    Its an awesome hope and one that maybe you can start a chain to reach. Self actualization breeds success in every manner and that is something no one should ever give up or stop striving for.

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