For sure money has departed from actual real world value essentially from the moment it was created and people ought to be compensated for the value they actually create and of course taxed for the value they take from society. It’s kinda the same issue with climate change, if things actually cost what they truly cost the problem would fix itself over night. The issue is we externalize the cost to the environment, to the poor, and to our future so we don’t have to pay it today.
With actually correct value being represented by money and goods and services actually having their true cost that would mostly solve everything.
What if their work was its own reward? Like if you want a smart grid, you build one, or check in with the people building one and ask how to help, and if private property is abolished, you just build shit for everybody, or everybody it’s convenient to build for? So you can’t really hoard shit. You can only inspire and build for everyone?
Or if you want more houses because you’re sick of sleeping outside or hate the streets being full of tents or want your dumbass 23 year old to move out finally please, you go learn about construction, or hook up with your local construction club/crew? If nobody owns stuff that isn’t meaningfully personally theirs, it gets much easier to do shit.
The lady who runs the best construction crew and her friend who designs the most beautiful houses still get prestige for being standouts, they still get to feel awesome, just like the guy who throws those amazing parties, but there’s not this huge bundled abstraction layer of bullshit.
Its not like people want to do nothing, unless they’re totally crushed by capitalism. Maybe the ways we do things change. We build more safely (or way less safely, hell yeah! Watch this!), or work shorter hours, or there’s an air separated musicians cubicle in operating rooms for live dramatizations, it whatever sensible cool or insane shit we decide to do. You can’t really argue we would make worse decisions than the ones currently governing us.
You go through a lot of insane implausible contrivances to keep this ‘money’ system you admit has basically never not been extremely fucked up.
For sure money has departed from actual real world value essentially from the moment it was created and people ought to be compensated for the value they actually create and of course taxed for the value they take from society. It’s kinda the same issue with climate change, if things actually cost what they truly cost the problem would fix itself over night. The issue is we externalize the cost to the environment, to the poor, and to our future so we don’t have to pay it today.
With actually correct value being represented by money and goods and services actually having their true cost that would mostly solve everything.
‘Compensated’.
What if their work was its own reward? Like if you want a smart grid, you build one, or check in with the people building one and ask how to help, and if private property is abolished, you just build shit for everybody, or everybody it’s convenient to build for? So you can’t really hoard shit. You can only inspire and build for everyone?
Or if you want more houses because you’re sick of sleeping outside or hate the streets being full of tents or want your dumbass 23 year old to move out finally please, you go learn about construction, or hook up with your local construction club/crew? If nobody owns stuff that isn’t meaningfully personally theirs, it gets much easier to do shit.
The lady who runs the best construction crew and her friend who designs the most beautiful houses still get prestige for being standouts, they still get to feel awesome, just like the guy who throws those amazing parties, but there’s not this huge bundled abstraction layer of bullshit.
Its not like people want to do nothing, unless they’re totally crushed by capitalism. Maybe the ways we do things change. We build more safely (or way less safely, hell yeah! Watch this!), or work shorter hours, or there’s an air separated musicians cubicle in operating rooms for live dramatizations, it whatever sensible cool or insane shit we decide to do. You can’t really argue we would make worse decisions than the ones currently governing us.
You go through a lot of insane implausible contrivances to keep this ‘money’ system you admit has basically never not been extremely fucked up.