RE: Years Of Dystopian Talk At Silicon Valley Dinner Parties Has Turned To Action
So tell me, how will things work if there is no money?
For example, I work for a wholesale distributor. We buy things in large volumes for a discounted price. We then distribute to our customers with a marked up price. If we run our business in an efficient manner and stay competitive, the profits we make cover all costs plus a little extra to make the effort worthwhile to the owner of the company.
We have a weekly budget to spend on products. We try to get the best deals to improve our efficiency. We have a large database of information on the buying habits of our customers. This is our advantage in the marketplace. We place our orders with that data in mind to get the best return on our purchases while satisfying our customers needs. The products we sell becomes our buying budget (minus our costs) for the following week. If our budget increases, we know we are buying correctly, if our budget gets smaller, we know something is wrong. This is a constant balancing act and competitive contest between our costs and our competition. It is not an easy task. It is a constant battle.
And our retail customers are in the same battle, they have a purchasing budget that reflects their ability to sell their products effectively. If they price their products well, customers will buy and give them enough plus a bit extra to continue on in business the following week.
If you take away money, how will anyone determine if their efforts are worth it? How will distribution happen? Will we simply have to give all our customers as much as they want every week until we run out of stuff? Will we be able to demand as much stuff as we want from our purveyors? They cannot produce unlimited products, there are limits to physical production capabilities. And demand is always greater than supply. That is why economic goods have a price. How will anyone decide how much to produce? How much will each individual be able to demand?
All of this is hard work. Who will be willing to do this hard work for nothing?
HOW IN THE WORLD WILL ANYTHING WORK?!?
I am dumbfounded as why you expect me to answer these issues as I already told you a gazillions of times what I think of money and why. I cannot go through this again
Nobody is stopping you from using money to better your life. And you are. You can jump up and down all you want screaming that the sky is falling, yet it will not change the fact that we are growing wealthier every year and we are destroying more poverty every year. I suppose I can understand that all your screaming and yelling about money is making you rich, so you will continue to do so. Which I find extremely hilarious. :-D
But let's get to your "no money" economic solution to the housing bubble. How much home construction is not a bubble? How will we know how many homes to build without money to avoid building too many or too few? How will we decide how many of our scarce resources to devote to home building instead of other needed construction? Will someone get up one morning and say, "Hmm, I think I will build a house over here today"? How will a person go about acquiring a home? How long will a person have to keep a home? Can they leave their home after a week, a year, a lifetime? Can they acquire a second home? A third? How will home ownership be enforced? By the point of a homeowner's gun? What if someone else wants to live in your home? Can they? Could you stop them?
And let's talk about your "no money" economic solution to the extreme poor in the world. How will they acquire food to eat every day if there is no money? Will it just be lying about on the ground for them? Will you bring them food every day? Who will decide on who will bring them food? How will you better their lives without money? Will you build them all nice houses and utility infrastructure? How will the resources needed be diverted to the poorest areas of earth to accomplish this? How will we decide which resources to extract from the earth? More copper, or more iron? Make more glass, or cut more wood? How will we decide whose house gets built and repaired with our limited resources? Who is going to be willing to do all this work without pay? And how much should we provide to each poor person? Does each poor person decide how much they get? How much is enough? Should they get t-bone steaks every day or just ramen noodles? How much do we need to give for someone to be not poor anymore? And do we need to provide for every single child they have? Do we have the right to tell them, ok, no more than ten children? Do we have to proved those children with all the free food and homes they need or want? At what age does a person get their own home?
Who is going to answer these questions?
the answers have been given to you for more than a year now but unfortunately you are STUCK in fallacy that is the materialistic/darwinian paradigm
This blog is not for ATHEISTS.
Yea I know...magic robots are gonna make everything.
But beware the robots, they will take over everything!!!!!
sigh.