It looks like there's a price for anything these days. Even things some are so keen to get rid of metal cans, old clothes and some teens these days- vaginity.
One 22 year old is selling hers for millions of pounds;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4222155/Student-auctions-off-virginity-for-offers-of-more-than-2.5-million.html
Compared to prostitues this is a great idea and all the things she can do with this money, she's set for life finatually. On the one hand I'm in awe at this ingenious idea, on the other I think it makes a mockery of human value to put a price on something so precious, to swap it for money. It's crazyness a while ago there was a lady who sold hers for £10,000 - so I guess she must feel like she was underpriced?!
Money has become a rediculas thing. A thing that can be swapped for lives. A thing that is so sort for and so easily gained sometimes. Something that we can all throw at Africa but it will go nowhere. A thing that we could live without so easily but becasue we've used it for so long I wonder if the world could function now without it, we are all so dependant on the workings of it.
How would the world look without money, after all it was invented it's not always been needed to make the world go round. What if banks swaped food for time and jewellery for clothes. The value of things would change daily, just like they do now but by smaller amounts and depending on need at the time. People would make things and there wouldn't be the same everywhere. But the whole world would have to give up money at the same time and everyone would have to rethink the value of everything for themselves.
Would it work?
Originally posted by SeitseWell yeah, but you get to keep your brain. Pluss they don't take up the whole of it for those hours, you get to day dream about other things and it feels honest (I hope it feels like honest work anyway).
I'm selling my brain and energy to the company I work for, 9+ hours a day, 5 (sometimes 6) days a week.
She's selling her "unexplored treasure chest", for some hours and for a sum many times what I get for a full year's work.
Sounds like a deal in today's free market, uh.
She's making a decision she can't ever reverse, but then she is gettign money for it and so many make this decision and wish they could reverse it. Maybe now that there is a price for it a rapeist should pay this amount in compensation?
Originally posted by yo its meSome consider virginity as an important thing, some don't.
Well yeah, but you get to keep your brain. Pluss they don't take up the whole of it for those hours, you get to day dream about other things and it feels honest (I hope it feels like honest work anyway).
She's making a decision she can't ever reverse, but then she is gettign money for it and so many make this decision and wish they could reverse it. Maybe now that there is a price for it a rapeist should pay this amount in compensation?
Moreover: I feel very sorry and sad for poor girls in miserable areas of the world who are forced into prostitution, either because (a) they're literally forced, or (b) they're forced by the circumstances of margination, ignorance, traditions, etc. From there, it's the way down through abuse, poverty, drugs, corruption, etc.
I don't feel sorry nor sad about the particular girl mentioned in the newspaper.
P.S. And regarding me "keeping my brain", I'm selling my youth! I won't get that back!
Originally posted by SeitseYes I agree with you and I don't feel sorry for her either. I just think it's crazyness. Actually it makes me angry. It belittles the missery the girls face in prostitution, makes light of selling ones body.
Some consider virginity as an important thing, some don't.
Moreover: I feel very sorry and sad for poor girls in miserable areas of the world who are forced into prostitution, either because (a) they're literally forced, or (b) they're forced by the circumstances of margination, ignorance, traditions, etc. From there, it's the way down through abuse, pover ...[text shortened]...
P.S. And regarding me "keeping my brain", I'm selling my youth! I won't get that back!
The worlds a crazy place I guess.
So, Seitse do you think there is any scope for the idea of this plannet functioning without money?
Originally posted by SeitseBut what if we got rid of money altogeather? Back to how things were before Rome. But they had slavery back then too and how would someone get someting over to another country without currency? Perhaps it's just not possiable.
It will function without money very soon, so you're right on spot there.
Wait for the markets to collapse, and you'll see people swapping things, food mainly.
