Comment on Poignant post on the state of things
forrgott@lemm.ee 7 months agoThe 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…
ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Currency is just standardized gifts.
forrgott@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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.