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Reality is the enemy of utopia. This world is ruled by Pareto law. 20% of people contribute 80% of the wealth, etc. Once I met a South American very successful businessman while on a trip. We talked about issues of povertry and such things. He told me something to always remember. "Cease all money of the world and throw them on the ground from the sky uniformly" he said. "Amazingly enough, they will concentrate in the hand of a few people, no matter what you do."
This work is flawed as are many other tests of this kind that cannot have a proper control group. Specifically, you do not know whether the subjects actually had the cognitive skills to perform the task and you cannot in advance select a control group to compare results to that has the skills because such skills cannot be measured. As such, stupid marxists can always use such stupid studies to try to prove anything. When money talks, BS walks.
So, in essence, you are taking the same position Jeff Skilling did when running Enron and every other major firm on Wall Street. How's that working out? BTW the study was commissioned by The Federal Reserve. Quite the Marxist organization, no?
The purpose of having a moneyless society is to totally eliminate the issues you outlined above. Those shitty jobs will either be eliminated forever or more people are willing to help get them done. Right now companies don't want to have and pay three workers to get a job done that an average worker can do in an 8-hour shift. Once money is gone, there would be no such issues because nobody get paid and nobody will pay for anything. The goal is to make life more fun not like hell as it is now. In our current economies we have to meet some crappy money-driven criteria in order to be recognized as "productive" employees otherwise we get fired...so when there is no money in the picture, no one is going to measure your performance or fire you, as long as people roll up their sleeves and get things done together, knowing that after work they can go to the grocery store and pick up whatever food they need and take home. As for the abuse of the system: Once people realize that in order to eliminate crimes, poverty, unemployment, and all the issues we are dealing with everyday, we need to become like one family. I am sure they will eagerly embrace it. Besides, have you ever wanted to work with your friends on the same job while cracking jokes and having a good time, not looking at the clock to see if it's break time or 5 PM yet? Well then, that is what absence of money will bring along. As long as you do volunteer/work at any job at any location on Earth, everybody will appreciate it and enjoy it. Trust me, I am no delusional or spiritual type person who is unable to distinguish reality from fantasy. I know what I am talking about and like many others who have had this vision, I am confident it will revolutionize the way we live and work forever.
Like marxists, you are an extremist and you want to impose extreme positions on others. I take no position other than common sense. As far as Federal Reserve, find first the original study and we can discuss it. I take no crank claims for granted. Maybe so, but the study is seriously flawed. I can expect nothing more from a flawed organization such as the FED and the socialists who are running it lately.
What he/she meant was that these are the jobs/professions that will be eliminated once we have a moneyless society. We are not talking about the past, but the future.
Sanaz is right. Under certain circumstances in the past, yeah sure these professions had a purpose. Under different conditions, they will no longer be needed. Time could be allocated into more productive work. intradaybill said "reality is the enemy of utopia" reality is not static. reality is always changing. what is impossible today, might be possible tomorrow.
the interests that people would pursue would be the same. Paper money is just that paper money. Do I go to work for Paper Money? no. I go to work to have a better quality of life and people would still pursue that. Take money out of the equation and people would still want the nicer things that the world has to offer. In your paper-less world why would Joe six pack have more right than me to have the house on the water and not the one window apartment in some inner city in the US. It's all nice on paper and in theory and with some drastic measures in the distant future it may even come to fruition, but as we have it now I think not.
it will take the world to hit rock bottom for us to realize our way may not be the right way. Just like you will find that most born again christians are behind bars. Only with something drastic did they turn to something beyond them....