Quote from: Boussac on August 13, 2011, 06:58:40 AM

Quote from: Nefario on April 04, 2011, 08:10:48 AM

The reason money exists in the first place is to allow the allocation of finite resources. Where resources are limited but wants (and to a lesser extent needs) are not.

My understanding is that the rationale for a resource based economy is precisely what you are pointing at: distributing scarce resources under rules that are not bound by monetary rules.
The caveat going with this scenario is that a global governance, being the only alternative to the governance of a globalized finance system, is not immune to the risk of a totalitarian shift.

I'm not sure about that. The venus project may want a global communist government, but the zeitgeist movement doesn't want governments at all. It's all voluntary, and money will just disappear because "it will become useless". "We have tried money and didn't work, we tried governments and the same happened. It's time to try a different thing."

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