If money was abandoned, and the worlds recources were shared equally, would the world be a better place?

Question

It's like saying: if everything was free, would this end theft?
Would there ever be an alternitave, more fairer, balanced life experience for the whole world?

Answer 1

i think the world should work in trade.

Answer 2

No. Conflict is a part of human nature. It is, even, a necessary part. If we are all equal in every way what is there to strive for? (And I so very much do not mean we are not equal in terms of race, creed, ethinicity, gender, religion, place of birth, etc... Those are beyond our control and place no limits on our ability to try for more.)

If a person will have the same advantages in life if he or she were to drop out of high school or spend years working on an advanced degree in a surgical field we'd find ourselves with a lack of surgeons. Why spend all that time and effort if the personal gain is the same for all? If altruism was the answer then why do we need to pay surgeons so much more? It's certainly not because we actually think they are worth it otherwise we'd pay them more than, say, Keanu Reeves who has no great talent but is a celebrity.

Heck, if everything is free why work at all?

Also, because we are human and imperfect, there will always be those who will hoard and exploit. Just making everything free doesn't change the nature of people. If only a very few people had access to potatoes and they decided to take advantage of this and hoard potatoes then, suddenly, potatoes would have value and nothing else would because everything else is free.

Money works because it allows a person who has only chickens to trade to trade for what he needs with a person who has no need for chickens.

It's a lovely idea and a lovely solution but it does not account for human nature.

I further submit that it has nothing to do with greed. We want to acheive, we want to strive, we want to be able to do good and be appreciated for it. Greed comes in wanting something for free, in wanting something without having to actually work for it or earn it.

If all products and services are free than the actions and intents behind them have no value.

There is actually no reason to think our current system of trade does not work. The assumption is more in thinking we can be happy without something to strive for.

People think money symbolizes greed and dispairity. Well, it does, but it also symbolizes hope and independence.

Human nature is beautiful because it contains the best as well as the worst. The one cannot have meaning without the other.

Answer 3

If the world resources were shared equally, those in the richer country's would see a significant lowering of the resources open to them. I believe there is enough food and water to go round so it would be a fairer world.
But I do not accept that abandoning the money system would have that effect.
By abandoning the tokens of worth which money is, other items of worth would replace money, food, water, shelter. To abandon all items of worth for trading, would disable the poorest people's ability to get out of their poverty.
Money isn't the problem, peoples greed is the problem.

Answer 4

It would not work. People are too greedy. One person can easily justify seeing 1000 others starve just so they can live in morbid excess.
If we think about it back in the neolithic we lived in an era when all resources were equally shared, even before then in the ice age humans were such good hunters that they never went hungry. Human society inherently seeks a tyrant to rule them.
Even if everyone lived in huge gold palaces with rooms filled with cakes and treasure people will still steal - very few thefts are motivated by poverty alone.
Probably the only way to ensure people share would be to force them to. If everyone lived as equal slaves under a strict police state where all resources were controlled then people could live in peace. We can not rely upon altruism because few people really are altruistic.

Answer 5

You have limited your concept of a better place touching basis with only money as the means of the attainment for a better place. It would probably be a better place, but if people are still playing ignorant on the perils they cause to our mother earth using the amount of money they have, would it still be a better place?. Everyone will be buying SUVs as everyone can afford for instance. I find this place that you're thinking is a very chaotic place. We need balance.
On the other hand, there are other non-material bases that are constituents to a 'better place', and these are hard to find because they come from the essence that make us human beings.

Answer 6

i dont think so..well that's a nice idea..but that's beyond reality...as you can observe..we are living in a world of "pairs" and "compliments"..there's the good and bad..hate and love...day and night..ugly and beautiful..rich and poor..equality and inequality..black and white...fair and bias...etc...of course you couldn't say that something is unfair when theres no such thing as fair...you couldn't say that there's no such thing as equality when there's inequality..right??because one thing is a compliment or pair of the other thing...so i believe therefore that the your question is absolutely beyond explanation and highly unanswerable specifically speaking....because even if the world's resources will be shared equally...then in some aspects..some of the things in the world may not be shared equally...thus..the world might be a better place or not...
anyway...we can still make our world a better place...it start with just one..that one becomes two..and that two becomes four..until it becomes a million....you may start it now...heal the world...make it a better place....we really can't change the world in just a flick of a finger...change starts from within

Answer 7

Well GOD created the earth, and all it's resources. I don't believe that money was suppose to exist, but eve ate the " apple " so our punishment was to work and sweat , along with other things. Money is the root of all evil. If it didn't exist than I believe that the world definitely would be a better place.

Answer 8

Until people open there ears and listen and use there eyes to see,and understand about daily bread and what that means, money or everything free it dont matter to the blind, deaf, and the faithless.They will go on building homes of gold on earth.
No you who have an ear listen, Would you have 100 years of living as a king on this earth if it was to cost your soul?
Take your daily bread and be thankfull to God and Jesus for it,then give the rest to them who need it.

Answer 9

I do believe your on to something. If there was no money and everything was shared equally among everyone i.e. food, amenities, utilities etc. then it could wipe out hunger, homelessness and maybe even war to a certain degree. Most importantly it would meld the entire planet into one class, the best class there is EQUAL. - Good question.

Answer 10

Motivation is an important aspect of life. For many, if all was provided then they would loose motivation to achieve.

What is needed more is a fairer distribution of work. This would give the power to the worker.

Answer 11

The world would be better if we left the planet alone and settle on Mars for the next hundred years.