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We all need clean air, water, healthy food, things to protect ourselves against harsh weather conditions like clothes and houses, means for transportation and communication, exchange of products and knowledge, good collaboration with and organization amongst eachother, to CARE for eachother and all those things we really need to make life safe and worth living for each and everyone of us, to feel cared for by our fellowmen in order to care ourselves. The one thing on earth we don 't need at all is money! Money is totally fake, has no real value, but on the contrary, It leads to petty competition, tug of war and even real war. Real civilization and true development only comes from being generous and caring creatures! Let 's say: 'yes, we care!' Let 's try and organize a society without money nor trade, only based on empathy and understanding, to try and be as generous and as caring as we can, only then we 'll have true selfworth which doesn 't need measuring at all when justified.

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• A comment on Conversation: A world without money? Could it ever occur?

  Nov 20 2011: I totally agree, I had put this idea in my profile already. I am so happy somebody is thinking of the same solution. The one thing on earth we don 't really need is money. I also stated that true civilization only comes from a caring and generous state of mind/heart. Greed, laziness and false pride come from an selfish state of mind, an underdeveloped one, are to be considered as a mental disorders, more specifically as addictions. It ' s all about giving in to instant gratification, short term and narrow vision, creating bad habits. We should not let the world be dictated by such 'thinking', which only comes down to rationalising uncontroled impulses afterwards or simply false excuses that are builded up to false theories.It 's degrading/indignifying for any human being, one can speak of involution instead of evolution. Abolish money wouldn 't of course automatically abolish greed etc., but at least the rest of us wouldn 't be obliged anymore to play along by those set of jungle rules, the majority of normal people would be able to experience the natural better way to go for humans. Our own brains don 't reward selfishness, only altruism or real social and honourable behaviour produces normal amounts of dopamine/happy hormon in the brain. True selfworth and selfdevelopment cannot come but from being generous instead of petty which the laws of enoconomics force us to. It s only natural but only wise to care, it s not natural having to be competitive, so having to consider everybody else as a possible ennemy. It turns the world into a dangerous place whereas caring creates safety, peace, true happiness and joy, is the only healthy thing to do! Shared joy is multiplied joy, shared grieve or burden is only half as painful. Big difference to try and make eachother happy out of empathy and understanding... that is the only way to selfrespect and selflove, not by spoiling yourself, but by recognizing the valuable human in somebody else... you first have to be it yourself!
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  A comment on Conversation: Instead of old age homes and orphanages in separate facilities, the combination of both should be built.

  Nov 20 2011: I agree that we shouldn 't have old age homes nor orphanages, that people should be living with their family or provided with one, in a small group with enough diversity, surrounded by real caring people instead of being a project handled by the laws of economics. It 's a good idea to mix such groups of lonely outcasts, to bring more joy and meaning into their lifes. Love and care is to rare a thing and as old or as young as people are, they need to feel usefull and meaningfull, be able to care and really cared for. It certainly is an original idea that goes in the right direction and hopefully inspires more of that!