Mar 12 2012: This didn't actually have anything to do with Solar, nor was it critical of Solar. That was just the set-up... but could have just as easily been any other topic.
Your reaction is perfect for the underlying topic at hand - don't take yourself too seriously! If you're really that fired up about this video, I wonder how you react when people actually offer criticism or resistance to your ideas? Do you think that will get you anywhere....?
Nov 22 2011: Schools are using money to advertise and to expand by buying more property? So? More capacity and more competition will drive the cost per person DOWN. Rather than the government mandating school tuition, why not provide subsidies and grants to those who need them?
Nov 22 2011: This is similar to Marxism. The idea of group cooperation. Everyone chooses how they will contribute. Everyone shares resources. As with any idealist theory, the problem is getting there. As you say, we certainly can't just eliminate money immediately. And I don't think you ever could, or would want to.
The thing is that the creation of currencies - gold, tokens, paper money, rice - is what facilitates trade between people. It's an intermediary, which allows us far more flexibility than simple bartering. If you look at primitive societies that operated without currencies, they were able to do little more than sustain basic living standards. Trade is what advanced human innovation. It is why every successive generation will have it better off than the last as far as living standards.
That said, the idea of a collaborative culture within our current society holds many possibilities to also further the human race. Open source projects, wikis, mass collaboration. I strongly believe that these types of projects will be the next frontier in human evolution, and the internet will be the medium. It allows thousands of people to contribute their knowledge and skills - giving as little or as much time as they wish - to further innovation. Think about how much more knowledge and information is now accessible for free to anyone. Wikipedia, sites like TED, MITOpenCourse (full courses and materials for free). And the possibilities these new platforms promise in fields of science and technology, medicine, health care and so on...
So what about a world without money that exists within a world with money?
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Your reaction is perfect for the underlying topic at hand - don't take yourself too seriously! If you're really that fired up about this video, I wonder how you react when people actually offer criticism or resistance to your ideas? Do you think that will get you anywhere....?
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The thing is that the creation of currencies - gold, tokens, paper money, rice - is what facilitates trade between people. It's an intermediary, which allows us far more flexibility than simple bartering. If you look at primitive societies that operated without currencies, they were able to do little more than sustain basic living standards. Trade is what advanced human innovation. It is why every successive generation will have it better off than the last as far as living standards.
That said, the idea of a collaborative culture within our current society holds many possibilities to also further the human race. Open source projects, wikis, mass collaboration. I strongly believe that these types of projects will be the next frontier in human evolution, and the internet will be the medium. It allows thousands of people to contribute their knowledge and skills - giving as little or as much time as they wish - to further innovation. Think about how much more knowledge and information is now accessible for free to anyone. Wikipedia, sites like TED, MITOpenCourse (full courses and materials for free). And the possibilities these new platforms promise in fields of science and technology, medicine, health care and so on...
So what about a world without money that exists within a world with money?