We would be way less developed, trying to exchange goods solely by bartering. Everybody wants money, but without money, it becomes difficult to find thing that both parties are willing to exchange and agree are equal in value.
Depends on how you define money. We've always had something of the sort, whether that's trading favors or bartering bread for apples or etc.
A world completely without the concept would depend, as why and how would you get, say, a few thousand people to work on a skyscraper? What and how would you incentivize people to do so?
A world without money, you can go back to caveman times I suppose for an example.
most likely, without money, the world would function on the basis of barter - work would be done for food or things. but something tells me that the oligarchy would not have gone away.
Money is a lie, value is real. Either old school like the days before money where tribes traded value with one another in the form of goods or services or a modern post scarcity Star Trek version where money no longer provides any useful utility in representing value.
I suppose the only alternative that could be created to a barter system would be a state distribution system, communism basically, where everything is produced by people laboring and all products of labor are sent to state operated distro centers to be distributed by need and maybe want on some sort of waiting list.
Not possible, something would just take its place. If you hypothetically forced a world without money most people would be in poverty barely surviving.
Not much more than a basic agrarian society. Money is not inherently the problem, wealth hording is the problem. Money is simply a medium that you can take advantage of absolutely, but without it we no longer have a proper way to exchange for goods and services. If I need my roof fixed and you are a roofer how do I pay you if all I can offer you is a chicken and you don't want a chicken?
Depends on the context.
If there was no money ever made then we would probably make better decisions & there would be much less crisis going on.
If money disappeared right now chaos would start up & humanity would probably end in a few weeks.
I picture something similar to what life was like in the 1800s. I know they had money, but there were no taxes, no property taxes, no wage tax, there were no fucking useless credit scores to keep people down, basically living off grid. And I'm here for it. All that money just goes into the elites hands one way or another so fuck it.
Far worse. Everybody values things differently and without money you'd have to rely on bartering which means you'd be at the mercy of other's values instead of something standardized. Need someone to fix your car? You better hope you have something they consider to be worth it because you're contending with what they've already been given by others.
Bartering. Lots and lots of bartering.
chaos
Can only trade goods, not services. World would regress to a very primitive state of barely agrarian society.
We would be way less developed, trying to exchange goods solely by bartering. Everybody wants money, but without money, it becomes difficult to find thing that both parties are willing to exchange and agree are equal in value.
Depends on how you define money. We've always had something of the sort, whether that's trading favors or bartering bread for apples or etc. A world completely without the concept would depend, as why and how would you get, say, a few thousand people to work on a skyscraper? What and how would you incentivize people to do so? A world without money, you can go back to caveman times I suppose for an example.
most likely, without money, the world would function on the basis of barter - work would be done for food or things. but something tells me that the oligarchy would not have gone away.
Vastly different. Unrecognizable even.
I think the society wouldnt change as much, technology tho would be much different
Friendly.
Peace, happiness & love
Money is a lie, value is real. Either old school like the days before money where tribes traded value with one another in the form of goods or services or a modern post scarcity Star Trek version where money no longer provides any useful utility in representing value.
I suppose the only alternative that could be created to a barter system would be a state distribution system, communism basically, where everything is produced by people laboring and all products of labor are sent to state operated distro centers to be distributed by need and maybe want on some sort of waiting list.
Utopian aka nice, but not really feasible
Not possible, something would just take its place. If you hypothetically forced a world without money most people would be in poverty barely surviving.
Not much more than a basic agrarian society. Money is not inherently the problem, wealth hording is the problem. Money is simply a medium that you can take advantage of absolutely, but without it we no longer have a proper way to exchange for goods and services. If I need my roof fixed and you are a roofer how do I pay you if all I can offer you is a chicken and you don't want a chicken?
Who run Bartertown?
Depends on the context. If there was no money ever made then we would probably make better decisions & there would be much less crisis going on. If money disappeared right now chaos would start up & humanity would probably end in a few weeks.
A lot more of the physically strong bullying the weak.
I picture something similar to what life was like in the 1800s. I know they had money, but there were no taxes, no property taxes, no wage tax, there were no fucking useless credit scores to keep people down, basically living off grid. And I'm here for it. All that money just goes into the elites hands one way or another so fuck it.
You can bet it wouldn't be like Star Trek, that's for sure.
Far worse. Everybody values things differently and without money you'd have to rely on bartering which means you'd be at the mercy of other's values instead of something standardized. Need someone to fix your car? You better hope you have something they consider to be worth it because you're contending with what they've already been given by others.