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Originally Posted by Von Due
Humans are not sophisticated but we are what we are, superstitious, simple minded and stubborn, come hell or high water. We also make the calls so I don't see the moneyless society happening before we are all gone.
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Originally Posted by Von Due
What I was saying was, the moneyless global society will never ever happen again. It was moneyless but that's more than at least 6000 years ago, before the first city states, probably much longer.
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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
I quoth:
When you've been spotted lay a smoke screen. You have no illusions your idea would work. Quite the opposite. You do question whether money is necessary for humans to evolve (and I'm going to insert "from stone age hunter-gatherers). And you wonder if our society is some kind of base society.
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That's your example of utopia. No thanks, bub. I enjoy living longer than 25 years.
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How you pieced together that this was some kind of utopia of mine, that I thought this would ever happen, is truly a puzzle if I assume you read the posts you respond to. Again, for the last time: No, it is not a utopia of mine nor do I think it could happen again.
However, I do say that all this babbling about how invention of money is "human nature" is verifiably wrong. Human nature is not something we choose or get used to. Money came out of culture, not genetics. Humans 100,000 years ago were practically genetically identical to us. We are not a new species. We have in us the same "nature" as they did way back. That was and still is my point with the Hadza. One more thing: Your, or my culture, is not global or universal. Same species, different cultures. You seem to ignore that completely.