Post Monetary Thoughts

What are we going to do in a post-money world?

This was something that popped in my head.. as I'm sitting here waiting for my side hustle job to start for the day. It's a weird thing.. having a job that we do and really enjoy it, and one of the things that we enjoy about said job is that we get paid for it. Would I like the work I do as much, if it didn't pay decent money, or at all?

I think that's certainly something we are going to contend with as in the future, there is potential that the financial aspect is going to be removed from this entirely. It's a weird thing to think about, isn't it? Something so evil in the world is also so integrated with everything that we are bound to it. It almost feels like Stockholm syndrome, doesn't it?

I think it's important to keep in mind that we need to be able to adapt to change. The world is changing rapidly, potentially the most rapid it has in a really long time, with potential that it is the fastest it has changed for this current iteration of human civilization (I think there were 2 or 3 maybe, previous versions of us that mostly died out for whatever reason - we sure as SHIT didn't build those pyramids.. lol). With this comes all kinds of interruptions in how we are used to doing things. Will the financial system be one of the most extreme changes? It could be!

I am personally a little skeptical of the money "going away" because of one specific bit of cynicism I have: money allows these sick psychos to control people far easier than anything else has. If we know one thing, seeing it during the China Flu era a few years ago, the people in charge do not willingly give up power. We still have remnants of that silly thing today, despite the overwhelming evidence that it was all a bunch of horse shit and completely overblown. Yes people will be vulnerable to it, like anything. Yet the power to try and force everyone, regardless if they wanted to participate or not, to do it was a taste of some extreme example of control. They love control!

If the monetary system does go away though, how will we derive meaning in our lives? There will for sure not be lots of artists out there just doing art for fun. There are people who worked their whole adult lives at getting good at something, and it made them good money. Take the money away entirely and then what do they do? That's a really hard thing to think about. There has to be a medium of exchange for things in life.

Thinking of it another way - socialism. When socialism is tried, meaning the medium of exchange is made the same for everyone regardless of what you did before (minus the leaders of course but that's a different discussion) then it completely removes the incentive to work hard if you know your homeless or jobless neighbor gets the same portion as you, despite them not doing anything to get it. I think this is where we can clearly see that incentive, via medium of exchange varying amount abilities, really shows why it's important.

We have had a financial system for so long in modern human history, that you won't be able to remove it or breed out the instincts that it puts in us, for many decades at a minimum, or even a few generations. The monetary system has been around for a really long time, some of it starting back in the 1200's when the Silk Road was the major world economy. People need a way to have something and use that to get something else.

Will we be working jobs or careers in 10 years? For psychological reasons, I hope so!

What about you, do you think that it's important we have a way to derive meaning and value for work by continuing to use a monetary system? Or do you think it's all full of shit and needs to go? Let me know in the comments!