Imagine agreeing on how to make decisions which affect other people.
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2024
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What is a commerce based civilization? Isn't everything commerce based?
Wow. Good luck building your stick cabin in the woods all by yourself and growing and foraging all your food because you refuse to trade your labor for produce from a farmer because that would be evil commerce.
Well, we would be still in caves cause commerce is the basement of civilization
imagine everything humans could accomplish if we used billionaires as food and fuel
Wouldn't using them as food just be using them as fuel anyways? The only difference is what you're going to fuel with them.
came to say this. food is fuel, we are merely labyrinthine biological furnaces that chemically incinerates whatever unfortunate matter may enter us. the fuel's affluence is not typically relevant, but I'm a little out of touch on the science, I might be wrong.
What about a meritocracy based system where any type of contribution is rewarded, whether it be research, garbage cleanup, etc.? (I’m sure there’s holes to poke in it, just thinking outside of the box.)
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Since no one is spelling it out for you.
Commerce is just one caveman trading sea shells with another caveman.
Capitalism is when the caveman with the most shells becomes a ruler over the other cavemen that have less.