I’d argue that the emergence of capitalists and capitalist ideology, and the amassing of currency is just a natural tendency of currency itself. Currency itself is a tool of transactional thought, and I’d argue that if we could move away from transactional trade and focused more on mutual wellbeing, we could do without currency entirely.
That requires a basically unanimous raising of class consciousness. I just don’t see that happening anytime soon. We’re just not wired that way on a scale above small communities. Even without currency, hoarders gonna hoard. Before we had currency, we had people hoarding resources directly. It works in Star Trek because they’re post-scarcity.
Until we’re post-scarcity, we need a way to exchange goods and services on a scale larger than a neighborhood.
I’d argue that the emergence of capitalists and capitalist ideology, and the amassing of currency is just a natural tendency of currency itself. Currency itself is a tool of transactional thought, and I’d argue that if we could move away from transactional trade and focused more on mutual wellbeing, we could do without currency entirely.
That requires a basically unanimous raising of class consciousness. I just don’t see that happening anytime soon. We’re just not wired that way on a scale above small communities. Even without currency, hoarders gonna hoard. Before we had currency, we had people hoarding resources directly. It works in Star Trek because they’re post-scarcity.
Until we’re post-scarcity, we need a way to exchange goods and services on a scale larger than a neighborhood.
We are post scarcity, on basic needs.
Don’t think that’s gonna be enough.