Would we be so happy then?
2006-06-09 07:35:58 · 84 answers · asked by Evey 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2006-06-09 07:45:37 · update #1
If the world had'nt any money in it we would go back to trading goods. For instance if I had potatoes and corn and you had beef we would trade products. Gold would probably be in trade again too. I think we would be better off without it because our world has to many home less people and people who are hungry because there are not enough jobs leading to not enough money.
"Money is the root to all evil!"
I believe this whole heartidly. Without money there would be less crime. Less corruption. Less hunger.
Hope this helps! HAGD
2006-06-09 07:54:49 · answer #1 · answered by iamkaymie 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
In the beginning, there was no money. Man hunted, and gathered for their own necessities. Then they learned to grow their own food and each person only had so much they could do. People began trading part of their corn crop for part of someone else's carrot crop. In time, there was often plenty and items that were not necessities, like beads and baubles, were traded for other pretty things or for necessities from those who had more. People began to use baubles to buy necessities. Gold and silver often made up babules and were formed into coins in time, some of the first money (though I've heard wooden money may have preceeded this). Money is simply trade-- a symbol of the things that it is said to equal. At any rate, we would like to have a world where there was no money, a place where everyone had all they wanted or needed and could pursue their dreams without ever having to worry about whether or not they made money. Artists could paint without worrying about whether they could get canvases or pay the bills. Ideally, the internet would make this possible. Everyone would know what was needed at all times and could see if their chosen field was needed by someone, somewhere, whether it be farming or painting a picture for someone's wall. It would be wonderful if we could have that world and I think we are getting closer, but we are not there yet, sadly. I think it would be a good idea, though, if a city was engineered as an experiment, a city in which all the people got all they needed and what they wanted (within reason) and no one had any money for the length of the experiment, a few months or a year or two. It would be a good way to tell if it would work with society as a whole.
2006-06-09 07:48:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no houses
no education
no music
messed up hair
no love
carelessness
no books
no art
no writing letters
ugliness
no food
no water
no toys
no showers or bathing
Lots of lives getting lost
no elctronics
no transportaion
no communitcation
no pets
no lives
nobody to talk to
no medication
no safty
lots of fires
lots of burnt down things
no health
more desises
more sickness
no toys
nothing to keep you busy
you would not be able to see bc in a year or 2 the grass you be over your head
no clothes
no where to go
you wouldnt kno if itll rain, snow, hail, windy, calm, or sunny or not.
you would get tooth decay
No teeth
no games
no sports
no jackects, coats, shoes.
no pajamas
no furniture
no light at night besides the stars and the moon
deadly wildlife
no pools
no hot tubs
no labtops, cell phones, ipods
no glasses
no contacts
no theme parks
no arcads
no gameboys, ps1&2, psp,xbox, xbox360
no desserts
no restruants
no beaches
no lighthouses
no towels
no blankets
nothing to sleep on
nothing to lay on
no music
no IMing
no hair stuff
no acssories
no care
no solizing
more ppl gaining and loosing fat
no comfert
no makeup
no nailpolish
no vacations
no shopping sprees
no more clothes shops
if some 1 gets hurt, you have nothing you can do about it
more germs
no malls
and of course, NO MONEY!
Well thats i think there will be and so if you look at that this then defnitly NO we would not really be happy. I mean, i not saying ' money buys you happiness ' but you have a lot of things to survive on without money.
Hope I Helped!
(o: Gina :o)
2006-06-09 08:43:51 · answer #3 · answered by MyCuriousGorge724 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duh! People would use other things to buy stuff!
And if you what if there had never been the concept of money and could never be, well, they would steal. Not even steal, because that implies having some feelings about it afterwards; they would just take.
The problem is that HAVING was 'invented' BEFORE money.
The true corruption doesn't lie withing the concept of buying. It is the escence of humanity.
The thing that makes people greedy is the very same thing that makes makes a human's mind different from a plant's.
To cleanse away human corrumption you would have to tear the human ego from its root until there is nothing left but a non-thinking carcass that sees everything but has no opinion on anything at all.
It's much like a mirror. The same thing that makes one side of the mirror gray is what makes the other side a mirror. If you scratch it out, there's only glass left. Completely transparent glass.
THE END.(:D)
2006-06-19 06:59:06 · answer #4 · answered by its just me!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If money doesn't exists, there would be no corruptions, no kings, no presidents, no leaders and the likes. All this so called leaders existed because of money. They all want to have all the money they can that is why, politics and monarchy's present today. But if not for money, people would still leaving like the dinosaur age. Without money there would be no technology and we will all be stuck in the time were you have to strike 2 stones to make a fire.
So to answer your question would be really hard. There are some advantages and disadvantages if money did not exist. But here's the thing, I think that even if money was not discovered, people will have some sort of alternative, like what the other guy said, BARTER TRADING, or maybe something else.
2006-06-09 07:53:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not Liquid.
Money is there to make trades convenient. No money. No convenience.
Supply and demand will create problems.
Everything will be first come first serve at least for a while.
Contracts will be a thing of the past. They too are like money.
I would expect people to be at each others throats.
There would be blood shed and some would become rich while others starved to death.
As for Star Trek, that never made any sense. Of course, what made no sense was compensated for with food replicators, matter/anti-matter reactors, and a bizarre form of communism.
I don't see that being realistic.
Would we be happy? If we are alive, probably.
2006-06-18 06:18:04 · answer #6 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its physically impossible to just 'get rid' of money anyway. I mean sure you could just stop printing bills and such, but even then there would be trades going on left and right regardless of cash. It's all about economics.
Although to answer the question fairly, if there was no such thing as money, the world might be a Utopia kind of place. Or some kind of world from the book 'The Giver'. who knows though. It's a pretty open ended question.
2006-06-13 14:50:17 · answer #7 · answered by becky b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we eliminated money...
People would have to barter, because most people currently work for someone or some company, many people would not have the resources to barter. Perhaps, companies could offer vouchers to their employees to barter with. Ie: I work at a car dealership and get a 100 vouchers for 1% of a car. I can then go and give one to get food, one to get healthcare, etc. However, the system would take time to incorporate and essentially lead us back to a monetary system, just a less organized one. If we outlawed bartering, people would starve, die from disease, there would be no government, no police, no education. We'd really just regress years of progress and the population would dwindle. That's because we can not rely on everyone's good faith to work. If we set up a system of anyone who is employed to the best of their ability can receive goods and services, people will still exploiate the system and who woulod regulate such a system without taxes or payments?
2006-06-21 13:40:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Much harder tha life is now. That is why a monetery system came about over the course of history. Barter was too difficult of a system.
Say for example you are an onion farmer and you go to a contractor to have a house built. You have a few things to trade but mostly you have onions. How willing would a contractor be willing to build a house for the trade of literally tons of onions. As a contractor how would one use the onions or get rid of them all before they went bad. I could go on but I belive everyone sees the potential difficulties in society of today using a barter system in lieu of money.
2006-06-18 08:25:20 · answer #9 · answered by Jay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money is the value transfer and making Gold reserves in London and Rotation for making wealth in a nation. Mahatma Gandhi was a very intelligent person. But also straightforward. What is important next is the important goad. Money can be earned by many ways. But sharing among is most difficult task. It is the rule of Govt. that is Public to Pay taxes and make the country prosper.
2006-06-09 07:40:22 · answer #10 · answered by Nitin B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to say. I'm sure something would come up that would be the new thing to "compete for" like we do for money.
I just read a book that has someone's guess at what it would be like. It is called "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctorow. Very interesting book and it explains a future without money.
2006-06-09 07:38:11 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋