Economy?!
Todays highlight for me was world economy. Ever since humans were neanthertalls (typo?) they had a basic trading system that has not changed from then. I got this..you have that, i'll trade you this for that. The introduction of the concept of money just made a good that was unniversaly wanted in exchage for services or objects. Soo.. what is money? Money was introduced possibly thousands of years before Christ, back then using rare metals to craft them like silver and gold. Hell.. prehistoric man maybe even traded shiney rocks for food or items :D
So what IS money? Money is the major driving factor of current human based economy but it is also the most technology stopping element known to man, it also caused enormous loss and death. How come?! Well ALL the wars were driven, one way or another, for goods. And more implicitly, "money". If you can find me a war that sais otherwise and i cannot prove my point...
Now about why it impedes technological advancement? Doctor X has a theory about quantum physics. He wants to study it and research how it chould be usefull. He dosent have the cash for a lab or even the posibility to get funds. His ideea whould have been the brakethrou of the century allowing space travel and the posibility to create perfectly void space inside a container beeing able to make a perpetuum energy machine. But no.. this ideea is left for late golf nights with his friends over in a pub... washed away. This impedance is pretty new around 1960's+. you whould be surprised to know most of the technology today relies of 10 or even more years back of tech. Little new technology is researched.
So... what effect whould money have had on the church? Or even religion and faith as a whole? I think if money whould be taken out then we whould have the foundation of a PURE faith since there whould be no gains in beleiving then to increase one's self. Churches whould be primarily based on just teaching and revitalizing.
But hell.. can we remove money?! It's hard to even think that you chould just go down to the store, say hello to the clerk, get your items and wish the man a good day. Going deeper into the problem, if luxury was made, evreyone whould want it but there whouldent be enough for evreyone so who dictates who gets what and in what order? STOP IT! We just reached a nasty point in human thinking... if we had not wanted a moneysystemical economy in the first place then i know for sure that the goods made whould be equal to the goods wanted. But wait.. if there whould be no money and evreyone chould have evreything... whouldent evreyone just sit back and relax? WRONG! Another mistake in human thinking, if we started out without a moneysystem we whoul dbe driven to work from two reasons.. we whould KNOW it was the right thing to do and go to work just to be happy and feel fulfilled, or that we whould get bored of beeing relaxed. Might sound weird but that's how and why we cannot pertrude the meaning of self supportance. Most people whould equal this to hippyes with their comunities of self supportnes. Imagine that on a world basis and lose the crack and acid... where whould we be now? How whould hiercy work? Whoud there be a goverment? How technologicly advanced might we have become?
We can't know, we can't imagine, we are only human.
PS: There was a game aswell... Hostile Waters, a nice strategy type, that presented humans as they evolved after a major change, without a moneysystem and just with the free figure i presented above. Quite a bit of fresh air but it's impossibile to change current man thinking.
