If enough people ever figured all this out, they might wonder why the hell we even need money. Considering where/how money is created, (punching a few digits on a computer) it's really not even needed. The concept of an RBE (Resource Based Economy), because of what we're taught growing up, seems like Marxism. People don't understand how a burger flipper could own the same car as a brain surgeon. Don't get me wrong, even for someone who understands how unimportant money actually is, I can see the jealousy it would create. The propaganda would lead people to think that there would be no brain surgeons, if brain surgeons couldn't get more than the burger flipper. But that's what money does. It's how it was designed.
How silly is it, for the human race, top of the food chain, about the only species that has the ability to reason and communicate on such an advance level, can't see why an RBE has 1,000 more benefits, than our monetary system.
If you have a minute, this is a little something I've thought about over the years, that has to do with an RBE:
In south America, there's a man who collects sap from rubber trees. He uses a steal bore to drill into the tree. A plastic bucket to collect it. Puts it on a truck that has steal, plastics, copper, rubber and all sorts of other things to make it go. It's brought to a collection facility, then onto a rubber plant (probably in China or the USA) where rubber is manufactured. It's then shipped to a place where they they make tires. (or what ever else is needed) Then the tires are shipped to a warehouse, then onto the retail store where they're installed on your car.
Now, think about all the things (buckets, bores, ships, planes, buildings, workers, staff, paper, computers etc etc) that goes into all that. Especially the people. Take the bucket for example. Made from some sort of poly. Which takes oil drillers to extract. And all the things that were built by even more people just to drill for the oil.
Hundreds of millions of people went in to just getting the sap from the tree. Hundreds of millions more to get the sap from the rubber tree to your car.
The point is, I suppose, is that in some form or fashion, we all need each other. Either directly or indirectly. The question is, why to we still charge each other. It's my opinion, that money is just the middle man.
It took me a couple of years of asking myself, "What is the down side to an RBE," and then solving the problems that an RBE would create.
One of the biggest ones was "Why would anyone work, if there was no money?" Once it clicks in your head, the answers start coming easy. And at the end of the day, as I said before, the pro's outweigh the con's, 1000 fold.
Note to add: The answer to the question about can be found by understanding one thing: Money doesn't buy anything. Our labor does. We exchange our labor for money. Because there has to be a monetary profit involved, then we and those who employ us have to have some agreement as to how much our labor is worth. And so, with an EVC (Employment Verification Card (that proves we're employed), no one can decide for us, what our labor is worth.
