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What is moneyless economy?
“most jobs would be eliminated..†Not exactly! All the jobs related only to money will definitely be eliminated, like Stock Markets, etc. Along with all the supporting staff, computer programmers, who write codes for stock market software, etc. Majority of modern education courses and their teaching jobs will vanish, because they are all wrong. Take a look at [1] , for example. However, many new jobs will be added. [1] If you change to a cyber coin system, one day hackers from China or any other area can just infect your system to steal your money. Hackers can't take money from my pocket from thousands of miles away. With digital coins, they do/will.[2]
What is money?
In the above example flute makers don't control the resources (wood/metal) - they only control few products which *they* produce. Suppose flute makes would control the resources,
Here already you've created a bank/buffer of resources centrally controlled.
Moreover, major public (also free) projects [like OpenOffice, Public rail transportation, Public health] uses tax payer funding
Means requirement of – Stock exchange market (For commercial projects), and government loan
Profit based competition creates new jobs but non-profit based competition creates jobs as well. Just think of open source and free software GNU Linux. There are dozens of versions and distributions. Is it really necessary? How can one explain this pointless multiplication of similar software? Why do people spend their free time making something which is already out there?
In a similar way people will always want to produce and drive new varieties of different cars, etc. [3][4] Flute makers would choose who the flutes will go to. But there would be a limited number of quality flutes or violins. Professional musicians have to practice many hours each day. How could these instruments be shared among musicians. Who would get these best flutes? Best flute players? Or flute players who may not currently best but who have best talent and potential? Who would make decisions about flute distribution? But what professions like about dentistry? It doesn't seem to me that people will not need to go to dentists as much, and that dentists could therefore work less hours. In the same time, it is hard for me to think about a person who would volunteer to do that job - it is just not that much fun to mess with peoples mouth. What mechanism in money less economy would there be to incentivize enough people to first study dentistry for years, and then to do this work? Full time jobs of present could be split between more people into part time jobs. All these people could spend more time working on personal growth and enjoying life. It is possible that all jobs could be voluntary (like Wikipedia). There would probably be enough people interested in... lets say construction... and would contribute to building infrastructure to be used by society as a whole. Industrialization and mechanization enable this -- one person supporting many. If there was no money, and things were available for free, there wouldn't be a need for: most lawyers, judges, and policemen dealing with robberies, cashiers, banks, insurance industry, sales, marketing and advertising, most car (and every other product) designers and engineers doing currently redundant work in dozens of similar companies (those who like this work could work together on the best possible car used by all for free), and many more professions.It is very uneconomical to own a car and use it only 10th of a time and waste a space for parking the remaining time. Cars could be used in a similar manner to books in libraries. This money-less system would solve an numerous problems societies currently face. The most significant changes that would happen are:
production of goods would be sustainable,
most jobs would be eliminated as they wouldn't be needed without use of money and profit based competition. It is not based on a barter system.
It is a system where everyone has a free access to resources - something like the way public libraries work today. When you don't use something, you return it. It is based on the premise that due to science and technology there can be enough resources to support good living for all humans. There are things that cannot be reused as we consume them, like food, and there are reusable things like books and cars... Current technology can produce enough of both.[5] What is moneyless economy?
In the past majority of the population was involved in the food production. Today, thanks to numerous technological advances, a much smaller percent of population can produce food and other necessities for the whole population. However, people now need to spend more time learning and getting skilled, developing, and maintaining the technology. There does seem to be a huge useless sector of bureaucratic and other jobs that could be eliminated in a better organized society.[6]
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