3volver@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agoWe keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over timemessage-squaremessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1208arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1190arrow-down1message-squareWe keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time3volver@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareatro_city@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up49arrow-down4·8 months agoThe value of everything changes. Time is not static. What maybe useless today may be of great value tomorrow and that value has to be tracked. A system without money is just a system where the actual currency isn’t obvious.
minus-squarePlopp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down7·8 months agoWho said anything about no money?
minus-squareHugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down17·8 months agoI think the problem is in the “measuring someone’s worth using an arbitrary number”, and not the money itself. It’s that human worth shouldn’t be attached to a random hierarchical tool, whose main function is to distribute violence.
minus-squareTheGalacticVoid@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·8 months agoI agreed until you said that money was made to cause violence.
minus-squareHugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·8 months agoI didn’t say literally any of that though. I said its main function is to distribute violence. Money mainly exists as a way to decide to whom you will deny service. The more money you can give, the less people will deny you what you need, and the opposite is true.
The value of everything changes. Time is not static. What maybe useless today may be of great value tomorrow and that value has to be tracked.
A system without money is just a system where the actual currency isn’t obvious.
Who said anything about no money?
I think the problem is in the “measuring someone’s worth using an arbitrary number”, and not the money itself.
It’s that human worth shouldn’t be attached to a random hierarchical tool, whose main function is to distribute violence.
I agreed until you said that money was made to cause violence.
I didn’t say literally any of that though.
I said its main function is to distribute violence.
Money mainly exists as a way to decide to whom you will deny service.
The more money you can give, the less people will deny you what you need, and the opposite is true.