The Love of Money

[lavos]

You don't require money to undertake any enterprise that requires a group of people. The things necessary are: resources, and manpower. If you have these two, you can simply mobilize the persons to undertake any activity. Money is a ruse, a scam, an objetification, and a means for less-than-ideal people in the ethical arena, to get ahead and prosper. It takes a while to deprogram and wrap your head around this fact.

Money is an evil thing that traps us in materiality. It is also a closed system, that forced the world (which is actually analogic) to bend to its demands.

Money fosters egotism, greed, and selfishness.

The "freedom" money confers upon a person, is built on the misery of other humans, who were/are not as lucky as the money holder. Is it okay to 'enjoy' your "freedom" while other people are in misery? Is that fair? Does it not bother you?

"Working", should be done for the sole act of contributing, and doing what you truly enjoy, not for the 'reward' of 'money'.

[Metamorph]

You don't require money to undertake any enterprise that requires a group of people. The things necessary are: resources, and manpower. If you have these two, you can simply mobilize the persons to undertake any activity. Money is a ruse, a scam, an objetification, and a means for less-than-ideal people in the ethical arena, to get ahead and prosper. It takes a while to deprogram and wrap your head around this fact.

I mean, originally money was gold and silver, and gold and silver are valuable. People take apart computers and melt down the gold because gold is used in computing in addition to being historically used as coinage. However, yeah, you don't need considerable amounts of money to produce anything of value at all, and fiat money more or less has negative value compared to goods (its value approaches zero over time while the value of commodity goods is generally constant.)

[lavos]

I mean, originally money was gold and silver, and gold and silver are valuable. People take apart computers and melt down the gold because gold is used in computing in addition to being historically used as coinage. However, yeah, you don't need considerable amounts of money to produce anything of value at all, and fiat money more or less has negative value compared to goods (its value approaches zero over time while the value of commodity goods is generally constant.)

True, gold and silver are valuable. But they are not "money", even if they historically have been used as such. In the development of humanity, and the course towards a sufficiently develop humanitarian society, money appears. But once the developmental phase is over, money has to be discarded. You can have a society that is built around the ego (like we have now) or you can have a society that is built on the common good and humanism. In this latter society, money has no place.

But at least gold and silver are not a scam like fiat money.