It’s a nice ideacin theory, but that requires all the humans to be super altruisitic and just give stuff to everyone for seemingly no benefit to themselves.
As the other person said, bartering would only work if you both have the thing you need. If Allen is a woodworker and doesn’t have any bacon, and Alice wants some bacon in exchange for X thing, then a transaction can’t happen. It worked well when different tribes of humans could sustain themselves (hunt their own food, gather their own resources, etc.) and when people had very few needs (no technologies, no nice furniture, less mass produced plastic, etc.)
In other words, humans are selfish, and the promise of future benefit in the metals and paper (and now 0s and 1s with stuff like PayPal and plastic cards) we call “money” is necessary for people to trade effectively in the modern, interconnected world.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Can you explain in a rational way how getting rid of money helps?
dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Spoiler: He can’t.