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“Money” isn’t needed and there are enough resources available on earth so no one goes without.
How so? One you produced 1kg of potatoes and i produced 1kg of apples, how do we exchange? There has to be either NxM exchange rates one for each pair of physical products, or if we allow money, only N rates, for each product against single currency?
You can’t eat 1kg of apples, only .5kg before it goes bad. So you give the other .5kg away. Melsaskca also can’t eat another .5kg of potatoes, so they give them away.
Okey lets accept this. What about products for which no particular individual has any practical usage, but can only be produced by multiple individuals?
If you’d like to see a moneyless world explored extremely well, I highly recommend reading The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin.
It’s an incredible work of classic sci-fi that very realistically depicts how society would function without any money, and honestly I think the way it’s shown could absolutely work.
Obsessive monogamy is usually super fucking toxic, and “cheating” is way less of a betrayal than a dozen other things people put up with in relationships.
People will literally throw away years or even decades of stability and companionship over a single moment of weakness, like some weird sexual martyrdom, but they’ll turn themselves in circles to forgive actual ongoing abuse.
And to be clear I have never cheated on anyone, though I have been the third person. This is just a general observation from my many years in the game.
Polyamory isn’t much better ime
Cheating still exists in polyamory, and you still get the same toxic bullshit as monogamy except now you have the added bonus of shaky accountability because “well you knew we were poly” …
Most people don’t do the groundwork to be able to hold a healthy and stable poly system and end up doing a lot of damage in the name of “enjoying themselves”.
Toxic people will be toxic regardless of relational preferences, but I think polyamory allows self absorbed and abusive people the shield of “you agreed to this” when in reality, they’re often looking for loopholes in boundaries or miscommunicating / twisting communicated hard limits or emotional boundaries to fit their actions.
Poly folk love to act all high and mighty like having more than one partner makes you inherently greater than mono folk when really it’s just preference for different styles of love.
I say this as someone who is actively practicing polyamory. Not all assholes are chefs, but any asshole can be a chef.
Yeah the big thing people miss is that every relationship, mono or poly, needs to be built on a foundation of open, honest and empathetic communication. Poly relationships just have more options for solving certain problems, but the solutions it provides are not ideal for everyone.
I’ve got a few that I can’t really separate:
Dental hygienists are greedy charlatans who convince us we need an expensive hygiene appointment every six months when we really don’t. That used to be true before the invention of the electric toothbrush but not now. I stopped going 7 years ago and I make sure I brush properly daily for two minutes with my electric toothbrush. I occasionally use inter-dental brushes for a deeper clean and my teeth are perfect. No soreness, gum bleeding and certainly no cavities. It’s lies I tell ya.
AI is the most incredible development in human evolution since the invention of the wheel. I think it is the beginning of our next evolutionary step. It may even save us from destroying ourselves. It has brought me personally incredible results that have enriched my life in countless ways. I can’t wait to see where it takes us. People who are angry about it are dumb (you did say “controversial opinion” lol).
Money is basically the ring from Lord of the rings. You can’t have it without it changing you. I’ve had the dubious pleasure of knowing a great many millionaires and they’re all miserable bastards pretending that they’re not. Their families hate them, most of them are alcoholics and drug addicts. They hate themselves even more and their money doesn’t mean anything to them so they use it to impress others or hurt them, just so they can feel something. It’s all a disgustingly wasteful, tragic act.
Most controversial opinion I’m willing to share:
I think we should replace incarceration for certain crimes with corporal punishment, such as canning. Ideally we would build the agony booth from the mirror universe of Star Trek.
Incarceration is overly harmful to the future of the offender. Incarceration is expensive for society. Authorities hesitate charging people with crimes for these reasons. Corporal punishment solves this.
As long as there is no long term damage, I believe the physical pain is more human than the lasting harm going to prison can cause.
Wow. That is an actually controversial take. Could not disagree more.
Go into details, if you want.
How big is the can?
At least 6 7
