Man with a plan.
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Valuables would become a monetary source again. Salt was and in some places still is used as a form of money. Some ancient cultures also used beads and shells as currency. If you are looking for the altruistic answer that people could live without a form of currency, you would not find that an advanced civilization could support itself that way. What makes money work is the fact that it is universally accepted and sought. Barter breaks down when a merchant makes a product that only a few people need. All the time would be spent trying to make the deal.
Art thrives in a monetary culture because artists can sell to a person with excess funds, and buy food from a vendor who might not want art. |
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gene r
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we would just have to come up with another type of payment program. |
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VG
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i think back to nature will happen....barter maybe.... |
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nora 7
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just like old times sweetheart.. trading goods |
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ranger
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We will go back like in the old times, trading merchandise and services for what we need. |
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jquasimodot
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Rob each other blind. |
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Sir Lichenstein
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kill someone u dont like and say "its nothing personal, just business" |
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Awasthi
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The simplest answer available is by looking at your pocket. Now-a-days people hardly keep money in their wallets. There is plastic everywhere, subscriptions, points, credit cards.
Money is just a symbol of a value in terms of local spending power. Just because someone is a billionaire does not mean (s)/he will have billions of currency notes flying around him/her.
Instead of paying in money something else of the same value would be used. Numbers can stay as they stay now. Currency notes are already dissappearing from most transactions. |
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MrsMama21
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get really pissed off, steal, then probably resort to bartering |
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DL
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The barter system. |
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The Defiant One
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Well, if you think the everyone will just go to work for free with no paycheck, think again.
Here is how they will deal with each other.
They will create a new type of currency.
Now, if you mean that currency of all types are banned forever, then everything would come to a stop, businesses would shut down, utilities would stop working, people would freeze and starve. Most humans would die. Those who live on privately owned farms would live IF their crops were ready for harvest. If not, they would starve too.
This would happen because we live in a world where the survival of most of us depends on other people providing for us. Millions of people in cities depend on truckers to truck food in, and they depend on grocery stores to keep the food refrigerated if needed, and to distribute the food. If there were no way to compensate these people for their work, they would stop working and instead go off in search of food for themselves and their families. The same is true for the sanitation workers, utility workers, etc. |
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