Money
Money is the route of all evil. This I believe to be a fairly truthful comment. I often have discussions with people about money and how it corrupts and I’m often told a similar argument in its defence. Lots of people believe we couldn’t function without some kind of monetary system. They say that it's just not fair that a doctor should get paid the same as a bin man. The argument is that we are all worth something to society and the race as a whole to varying degrees. As appropriate people should be rewarded according to this. This makes things fair and encourages people to achieve more.
I’ve thought about this a lot and haven’t really come up with some alternative that would work until now. Bear with me but this is how it goes: If you do something such as provide food then it is your duty to provide this for everyone in your community. Why should they have to do this I hear you ask? Because you surely love your own kind and want to see it prosper. Even those who do nothing deserve basic food rations to keep them alive.
Let's say you cut peoples hair. Not everyone needs their hair cut but if you make food then you could give some to the barber in exchange for a haircut. If you want to own and run a car then you need to provide a service no matter how small in exchange for it. We take the value of items and make them all the same. Nothing is worth more than anything else. You use your skills doing something you love to help others in order to help yourself and not the other way round as is the current situation. The doctor and the bin man become the same – human beings. One helps people with their health, the other with their rubbish. They both help the human race in their own unique ways but are not mutually exclusive.
While saying that one person provides a bigger help to humanity than another has some truth in it this is not the way to run the system. The fact the someone provides a service is enough. To make one person’s service better than another's fosters hate and greed and money and most of the problems we currently encounter. This is just a rough idea that hasn’t been thought about properly yet but something along these lines is what we need to do.
I’ve thought about this a lot and haven’t really come up with some alternative that would work until now. Bear with me but this is how it goes: If you do something such as provide food then it is your duty to provide this for everyone in your community. Why should they have to do this I hear you ask? Because you surely love your own kind and want to see it prosper. Even those who do nothing deserve basic food rations to keep them alive.
Let's say you cut peoples hair. Not everyone needs their hair cut but if you make food then you could give some to the barber in exchange for a haircut. If you want to own and run a car then you need to provide a service no matter how small in exchange for it. We take the value of items and make them all the same. Nothing is worth more than anything else. You use your skills doing something you love to help others in order to help yourself and not the other way round as is the current situation. The doctor and the bin man become the same – human beings. One helps people with their health, the other with their rubbish. They both help the human race in their own unique ways but are not mutually exclusive.
While saying that one person provides a bigger help to humanity than another has some truth in it this is not the way to run the system. The fact the someone provides a service is enough. To make one person’s service better than another's fosters hate and greed and money and most of the problems we currently encounter. This is just a rough idea that hasn’t been thought about properly yet but something along these lines is what we need to do.
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