Money In The Eyes Of The World

Money is the unique structure that has the ability to sustain a society upon the strength of a piece of paper of on a piece of metal no more than a few millimeters thickness. It is the cause of all the worlds good fortune, but also the cause of all its bad fortune. I pose to you this question: "What would the world be like without money?"

Why didn't we just choose to live under a barter system? It would be a lot healthier for the human race.

Face it, wars were started on account of a want for power which was a direct result of the want for more money. But without money to be had, where would the power to be gained arise from? It wouldn't. Massive numbers of human lives could have been saved if money had never existed.

I know some of you may defend that wars are started over the need for political power, not just generalized power. But if you think about it, without money, government and politics could be nearly abolished or at least the corruption of our government would be kept at a minimum (because corruption is a result of greed, wanting more money). With a government like that, society could be peaceful and wars would never be started. Strikes over corrupt government and money would never start.

This leads into my point on the crime rate. Indeed, some crimes are not directly related to money such as robberies are, but some are results of psychological problems which most typical television psychologists enjoy tracing back to an unhappy home. You want to know what creats an 'unhappy home'? Financial problems. If there were no such thing as money there would be no such thing as financial problems. It's all a chain reaction. Happy people from a happy home results in lower crime rates. Happy homes result in fewer drinking problems, which directly results in few car accidents due to drunk driving. But there's the matter of technology with no money.

This will be a downer for all and any who live their lives involving technology in every aspect. If there was no money the progression and production of technology would be at a stand still or at a snail's pace. But would we really notice? We would have never grown up with technology and we wouldn't notice its absence. And besides without technology the earths natural resources and natural protection systems couldn't be destroyed and exploited. No factories to destroy the ozone. No technology to mine coal and do massive clearcutting. Without money, huge corporations wouldn't exist. In turn, these huge corporations would have no need to exploit the crops of third world countries and to take advantage of their once productive farm land. They wouldn't need to use children to make their products. These countries would be able to grow their own food and world starvation would be at a minimum.

What we need, instead of money is a good solid barter system. A trading system. Instead of exchanging money for goods and services, exchange good and services for goods and services. This would allow for a more peaceful society as well as a lower percentage of people who are obese. Having to work for what you want would allow for weight loss and better work ethic and values.

Think about this, as the cost of living gets higher, middle class and lower class become poorer while high class sucks up all the cash we hand out in order to live. It's been an ongoing battle for many, many generations. If money never existed then the division of the classes would never have taken place and we would all live in a united society where everyone is equal. Isn't that the kind of world we are trying to achieve - unsuccessfully - even with the presence of money? It's impossible to achieve because there just aren't enough people in the world who like to share their money.

I know this may sound communist, like I am trying to promote the use of a communist government, and indeed, there are a few ideas that communists employ that I believe could be used, but not all. I wouldn't suggest a purely communist government in any country. I am only suggesting that if money should exist we should adopt the ideas of equality among all beings and the sharing of money in order to maintain this equality.

To reiterate, the world would be a much better place if money had never existed. Our crime rates would go down, political structure would barely exist, the earth would be healthier because of lack of technology, obescity would be minimal, class division wouldn't happen, equality of the human race would happen, less war. We would be happy. I guess there's not much else I can say; this is just my opinion and thoughts on what the world could be like. I'll let you think what you want.