Imagine your world without money...

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  1. Ai chan

    Ai chan Queen of Yuri, Devourer of Traps, Thrusted Witch

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    If we are talking about a lone person in the woods who sometimes come down to the village, or a member of a small village, they will be exchanging favour, labour and time for more favour, labour and time with other people who are more proficient in what they do in that particular need. For example, to get wheat flour, Ai-chan will spend my time helping harvest wheat, then spend my labour carrying the wheat to the grinding stone and after that, the owner of the wheat will give Ai-chan some of the wheat flour as compensation for Ai-chan's time and labour.

    If we're talking about government level, you will basically be working for food. If you want luxuries, eventually you will get the right to take the luxuries, if someone else work to make it available. This means, if you want food, you can get them as long as the government acknowledges that you have done your part. If you want a car, you cannot get them unless someone made them. And even if someone made them, you may only be able to watch other people drive the car because there is not enough cars produced to be released to the lower classes.

    Let's talk about dating and sex. In a government that doesn't use money, you can meet girls as often as you like, but you can't treat them to dinner or cakes, because food is controlled by the government and if you give her your coupon to treat her to dinner, that means you won't be eating that night. Of course you can save a few days in advance so that you will have one extra coupon to treat her with, but there may be regulations in place to prevent hoarding.

    And if you hit it off and want to have sex, you can, but you won't have a place to have sex at. Because you are not married and therefore, you are not entitled to your own home, which means you'll be staying at your parent's cramped apartment. This is because houses are in short supply since nobody will build them unless the government asks them and building them anyway will mean free labour that will not be compensated. Robin Williams solved this by asking a favour of his married friend so that he can use his friend's place to fornicate while his friend is away.
     
  2. asriu

    asriu fu~ fu~ fu~

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    hmm?
    capitalist or communist this cat not care
    both can fail cuz human greed
    oh also desire will never satisfied no matter what kind of system you use