Is it possible for mankind one day not to need money?

Question

what if humanity all worked to better themselves instead of working for money.

Answer 1

Maybe, if greed wasn't part of the American way.

Answer 2

Yes the idea has been around a long time ago.
This was the concept of the point system where services including food, housing, education and medical care comes assigned or inbuilt with birth of a child within a society. As the child grows up, he or she will use up those "points"
It meant facilitation of access to government services and total control for births and deaths and these points are renewable with work and service.

The downside was that when the idea was presented then , some people immediately associated the concept with the biblical "666", suggesting the birth of every child will be branded with the prophesized barcode on his cranium plate.
So that idea went "phht". Would you touch it with a ten foot pole yourself? I didnt think so.
There were more variations and suggestions of sustainable communities that took away money as the motivator for work.
What was scary? Everybody will come banded and pretagged. You would be scanned in various places where you will eat, work or sleep and use the bathroom.
If an outsider came, all bells and whistles will be ringing and pealing. "Outsider Red alert" Lol. Movies were even based on this idea.

Answer 3

You seem to share a common idea, that money is the root of all evil. Such is not true.

Money is a tool, nothing more. You work, you produce something other people are willing to buy, you get paid. With this money, you buy the result of the work of others. Money is by itself, morally neutral. It is what people do to get it what could be moral or not.

And, no, the humanity cannot do without money or something like it. It has something to do with the nature of the work. Humans can build their own houses, grow their own food. Still, humans also can very good at one task, at the expense of a general ability. I work at a job that is insignificant in the scheme of things, That said, I get paid, and I rent a house better than any I could build, and buy food, better food than any I can cultivate myself. I prefer to continue my situation rather than to grow my own food

The only way such exchange can work in a large scale is with money or something like it. Barter was tried, and it cannot work in present society, as it has grown too complex, Communism, where the government decides who get what, and what work will be done cannot work either. They discovered that the some elites always managed to raid the treasury. Present usage of money is the result of a long history, where any sensible alternative has been tried. In the future, I do not expect the humanity to do away with money, but to refine the usage of it, to make it more equitative.

Answer 4

Communism and fascism tried to build a society that placed need before greed, and as a result turned 20th century into by far the bloodiest century in human history.

How many more millions need to be butchered to the concept that man is a sacrificial animal to his brother, before people start realizing that collectivism is responsible for the greater part of evil in human history?

Answer 5

The trade of services has been around as long as mankind has cultivated civilization. If not money, then what? I build houses, you grow food, we trade--the barter system--maybe the monetary system will collapse under it's own weight and we will go back to that, but money is just symbolic of these trades, hard to believe, but it makes things easier when your trade is not as tangible as a house builder or a food grower.

Answer 6

i wish that could happen, but there are so many greedy people out in the world that its impossible for mankind not to have money. Plus, everyone would be taking everything and not sharing. It would be kahos. I think the taxes should just go down to 0%!!

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Answer 7

Yes! But it won't change in this generation, I think it would take many, many generations to eventuate into a world society where self-interest and self-satisfaction, work-reward mentality is finally shed and replace with something better. People like money too much. They like to be monetarily rewarded for what they do.

Answer 8

No, you would have to creat an environment where all men were truely enlightened and desired only what they truely needed and thus gave compassionately to eachother. Otherwise you would have to go back to primitive society and barter!

Answer 9

no, unless we change money to grass or something stupid, it's vital in our corrupted society and unless we all have loads of it, or all have none at all, there will always be the idea of being richer and poorer and greed in the world

Answer 10

Nope. Greed is a biological imperative.

Answer 11

Actually, they work hard for money under the illusion that it will better them!!!!