@Sebulba Clearly you don’t know what money is. I’ve written about this over and over, so I won’t flesh it out here, but the idea is that money is a metaphor for value.
I will absolutely agree with you that people who just run after money as if it was valuable in itself are pathetic. They are missing the point just as you are, only in the opposite direction.
We have to be able to have a conversation about what is important if we are to include everyone in making decisions about where the human race should go. I don’t know how you plan to have that conversation without a metaphor for value that is easily traded. If you got rid of money, you’d only reinvent it.
How else do you plan for 6 billion people to discuss with each other and come to mutual agreement on what is important? An electoral system? Please! Do you feel like you have a say when your Rep speaks for you?
Nope. Money is just a metaphor, and you have no clue about what you’re talking about. Of course, when I was 20, I was saying the same thing. I was and am totally committed to making the world a better place. It’s just that I know more now about how things work.
And @Pazza You are equally as uninformed (or deluded) as @Sebulba. If you think the world bank and the imf have any significant power, I’ve got a bridge to Brooklyn I can sell you cheap. That notion is so silly, it’s not even worth the few words I’ve written here. But then, you like to run around spouting off all kinds of nonsense without having done an ounce of credible research. (Conspiracy theory websites don’t count as credible—nor are they well documented).
I should ask a question about money. People have so many cliche but wrong ideas about it.