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Should money exist?

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maybe we should just go back to barter, I give you two tons of rice for that BMW yonder......


@sonhouse said
maybe we should just go back to barter, I give you two tons of rice for that BMW yonder......
If you think so I agree w/you for once. Said it for yrs. And do it whenever possible. I make you a sign for your cellphone co. and you give me a ph. Govt. and taxes excluded.



@sonhouse said
maybe we should just go back to barter, I give you two tons of rice for that BMW yonder......
How then would government redistribute the goods in a "fair" manner?

Have you gone insane?


@whodey
I was just extending your logic.


@sonhouse

Well, dinosaurs, sharks, whales and squid survived and thrived for over 100 million years without money or taxes. Will we be so lucky?


@sonhouse said
maybe we should just go back to barter, I give you two tons of rice for that BMW yonder......
I agree. And it would make us all equal. I want us all to be equal. Except for murderers, and the people who dismember bodies, and the ones who rob 7/11's. But everyone except them. Everybody else, Lib professors, everybody......


@whodey said
How then would government redistribute the goods in a "fair" manner?

Have you gone insane?
What person, Whodey, would think that far ahead? We will all commensurate and it will work out. (Uhh, can you loan me a few bucks, I didn't get into work today)


@bunnyknight said
@sonhouse

Well, dinosaurs, sharks, whales and squid survived and thrived for over 100 million years without money or taxes. Will we be so lucky?
Maybe they were not after other fishes's stuff? Just venturing a guess........


@averagejoe1 said
Maybe they were not after other fishes's stuff? Just venturing a guess........
all of them worked for a living too


@sonhouse said
maybe we should just go back to barter, I give you two tons of rice for that BMW yonder......
What are you going to do when your neighbor grows more corn than you, ax him and steal his corn?

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@earl-of-trumps said
What are you going to do when your neighbor grows more corn than you, ax him and steal his corn?
If you are human then yes, you'd steal it and kill him. If you are civilized like a dolphin, you'd fix his roof in exchange for his extra corn. That's why we won't last even another thousand years.


@sonhouse said
maybe we should just go back to barter, I give you two tons of rice for that BMW yonder......
Money should exist.
Money shouldn’t be able to generate money though.


I was on the North/South Korean border a while ago. Some North Koreans used to travel south to work in a certain factory every day, and instead of cash they asked to be paid in Wagon Wheels (you know, the chocolate things). Apparently Wagon Wheels fetched a good price in North Korea. The North Korean government put a stop to this by commissioning the making of an equivalent confectionery which closely resembled a Wagon Wheel.


@Indonesia-Phil
Yeah, Un is a real altruist.

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