Imagine... no 'economy'.

[undergroundpanther]

Imagine if people shared,what they have,traded,and said fuck money,fuck the economy...and instead put each other as most important.

Imagine... I need help with a broken arm,A friend I know knows a doctor,I call said doctor,he needs plumbing help,I call my plumber friend to help the doctor,but plumber needs food I have chickens eggs ans tomatoes from my garden,I give some of my produce to the plumber,plumber helps doctor,doctor sets my arm.(NO money was needed).

Say,you need food,but you can build,you call up a person with a farm and help them as a farmhand awhile, fixing up a fence and when you are done you can feed yourself for a month and you have some home canned jelly too.

What if you needed a new pair of pants,you would call up an artist friend she likes to spin yarn,you offer to clean her house for enough yarn to make pants,then while you work she remembers the number of a lady who builds looms,you visit the loom lady,clean her house as she weaves your yarn into fabric,and you both end up talking about fabrics yarns patterns have a good time since you know how to sew you go home and sew yourself a nice pair of pants and made a new friend!.

Imagine you need sheets for your bed,a guy with an extra sheet set needs a pair of boots,you have a nearly new pair of boots that you don't use alot,but could fit him.You trade.


Imagine you have some dishes you don't need a few books,and a fake palm tree in a urn you take them to a "free store", which has the policy take something and leave something.You leave the stuff you don't need,but you find two items you need and one that would be nice to have,you take it and go home.(No money needed) No billionaire profits.

Imagine no economy,no profits,no one going without,no zero sum games,no imagining paper is anything but,paper.

[MADem]

1. That would be a barter economy. It would still be an economy.

So long as people want/need "stuff" you're going to have some kind of economy.

Someone will have to be compensated in some fashion for managing the "free store." The stuff isn't going to organize itself.

IF the day comes that people are just clumps of invisible ideas whizzing about the universe, then we might not need an economy.

[hunter]

2. The economy is an illusion cast upon us by our masters.

Reducing every human activity to the single metric of "money" is absurd.

But so many people "believe" in the "economy" just as they believe in their particular gods.

A dollar is a fucking piece of paper or electronic bits in a computer in a bank. Nothing more.

Physical reality is good food to eat, safe shelter, and appropriate medical care. Our civilization has the capacity to share those things with EVERYONE but our masters want us to be afraid. To be very afraid. Do what we say or starve.

Reducing economic activity to the single metric of a dollar is one way they do that, and their punishing religious "sky god" claiming "the devil finds work for idle hands" is another.

Fuck the almighty dollar and fuck their supposedly almighty gods.

Jesus himself said Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God but most of his so-called followers ignore him.