I'm tired, and listening to some really inspirational progressive house music. I began to think: "What if money did not exist?" So, in OpenOffice I decided to write down my thoughts.
Isn't there more to life then going to school, getting an education, making money, then later starting a family and owning a house, two cars, and a dog? As much as no-one would like to admit it, our society is filled with greed, and is driven by material goods. Certainly, people who have more material possessions, or more money are considered a higher type of human being then those who have little or no money, or may even be homeless. When a homeless man begs for money from passing government workers and wealthy businessmen in Washington, he is almost acknowledging that he is lower on the proverbial totem pole then the wealthy men that ignore his pleas for money. He becomes like a pet dog. A pet dog does not think for itself, or hunt it's own food. Without it's master, the domesticated dog is likely to starve unless it's instincts should happen to kick in and it finds it's own food. The lower class tends to be like a pet to everyone else. Everyone cares about the homeless man begging for money on the street. But they still feel superior to him. Sometimes homeless people resort to stealing to feed themselves. Can we really blame them? Humans must eat to survive. Is it not instinct to find food so that one doesn't starve?
The existence of money is a major flaw in society. What purpose does money serve other then to isolate humans into groups? I'm not in favor of communism by any stretch of the imagination. Communism is still based on money. Once society can stop with all the killing, working towards the extinction of money should be considered. If there were no money, we would resort to our instincts. Everyone would get food one way or another. There would still be farmers, but the food that they farm would be free in every sense of the word. People would actually help everyone out. It wouldn't be possible for everyone to be lazy, because everyone would do what they enjoy. There would always have to be doctors, and they would have to provide healthcare to as many people as possible. If they didn't, people would start dying and illness would spread. But if that's what happens, so be it. The human race probably won't go extinct very quickly. Say it does, what's the problem with that? There's way more to the world, the universe even, then just us humans. Whether or not there really is a higher power, or a God of some sort, we can't expect to have control over everything. Nothing is random, but all the while nothing is predetermined.
Money leads to nothing but problems. If there was no money, and no-one thought of anyone as being more important then anyone else, but everyone still had free will, society would in my opinion excel. It's hard to believe a society without money would work, or be possible to start at this point, but it really is. All the infrastructure is already built. There are already farms everywhere. The moment money becomes obsolete, those with large amounts of money will have no power. The government will be powerless. There will be no reason to kill or do harm onto others. The homeless and starving will be fed. The ill who cannot afford healthcare will be cared for. Society needs to wake up, and learn that money is a burden to society.