Daft_ish@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoWhy is currency so essential?message-squaremessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up18arrow-down1message-squareWhy is currency so essential?Daft_ish@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoPeople want purpose. Most people are too inept to grasp greater purposes, so rewarding them with ornate paper slips keeps them placated.
minus-squareDaft_ish@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoSo money is used to control people?
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 months agoOh absolutely. Consider how inflation and the cost of living rise faster than the minimum wage, or even the median wage.
minus-squareDaft_ish@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoSo how do reconcile most others peoples answers knowing what you know? Money is needed to enhance the exchange of goods and services but, as you said, also is used as a tool for controlling prople.
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoMoney is only necessary in a capitalist society. The reconciliation as you put it would be a socialist society.
People want purpose. Most people are too inept to grasp greater purposes, so rewarding them with ornate paper slips keeps them placated.
So money is used to control people?
Oh absolutely. Consider how inflation and the cost of living rise faster than the minimum wage, or even the median wage.
So how do reconcile most others peoples answers knowing what you know? Money is needed to enhance the exchange of goods and services but, as you said, also is used as a tool for controlling prople.
Money is only necessary in a capitalist society. The reconciliation as you put it would be a socialist society.