Almost everything we do in life seems to be traced back to money.
2006-08-23 05:12:26 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Economics
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2006-08-23 20:06:05 · update #1
As the Marxian theory goes, money will be abolished in communism where everybody works according to his ability and consumes according to his wants. In communism there would be no trading and hence no money because one can have what he wants for "free" because he will become a superman who works and produces efficiently by his own will.
2006-08-24 22:31:32 · answer #1 · answered by mekaban 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love Love Love the Ayn Rand quotes. It couldn't be said better. People forget that the physical dollar is a made up thing anyway, and the dollar only has value because we say it does. We could be using sea shells as money and the world would look much the same. It's not that money has a stranglehold on society, if anything has a stranglehold on society its limited resources. The only way money, i.e. limited resources, will lose its strangle hold on society is if God or magic elves allows everyone to have anything and everything they want out of a bottemless pit of goods.
2006-08-24 11:16:14 · answer #2 · answered by Korinne 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stranglehold? We'll always have money I hope. First there is the reason stated by Flims. Money makes since for trading goods.
I hope because if we don't need money that will mean we are not trading goods. And if you're not trading goods, you'll be trading bads.
“that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade..with reason…not force as their final arbiter … it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability… and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward.”
“When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns….or dollars. Take your choice---there is no other.”
I think we all better hope that money never loses its stranglehold, or it will be replaced by whips and guns.
"Any who thinks there is no difference might learn the difference on his own hide"
2006-08-23 23:13:22 · answer #3 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a philosophical question. But, I think not b/c we need some form of curency to establish trades (10 goats for a cow is not efficienc or 10 appples for 10 oranges is not either) b/c what if i don't want a cow or oranges, but wants a car and no one seem to want to trad emy goldfish for it? Society will not fucntion right. Sure one can say will don't i trade my goldfish for 10 goats, than use my goats trade for a cow than so on untill i get a car from trading. Well why not just cut to the chase, use money as the medium. No money will always stay b/c its make economic sense.
2006-08-23 16:14:51 · answer #4 · answered by Films 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, money makes the world go around and is the root to all evil
2006-08-23 12:16:07 · answer #5 · answered by ALWAYS PRIORITY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably not because all countries run by money and they need money to survive in this world
2006-08-23 13:29:36 · answer #6 · answered by laroya05 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋