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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2024
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A Boring Dystopia
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The only way to avoid this that I have ever been able to imagine would require our global society to somehow abandon the concept of currency. But that's insane, of course, so we're probably screwed...
Not insane. Insane is making up a system of what is worth keeping alive and then sacrificing life on Earth for that system. If we want to survive as a species, we might have to embrace a sort of gift economy.
Thanks for your reassurance. You know, given that the entire purpose of operating as a society is for everybody's individual benefit, it seems kinda weird to reject a "gift economy" out of hand, doesn't it? Basically, if each and every member of a society doesn't benefit from how that society is organized, then said society has failed at it's most primary function.
Currency is just standardized gifts.