In my last post, I suggested that philanthropism — giving away goods, services, and knowledge, rather than selling them — was a more ethical choice, and one which could be viable even in the modern capitalist world economy. Many thriving organizations — charities, non-profits, and open-source organizations — give away their work for free, subsisting only on donations of money and labor. And plenty of small, tribe-sized economies have existed without money or trade in the past. But could the whole modern world really run this way?
For the Love of the Work
Ultimately there would be no reason to have money in such a society. If you could just walk to the grocery store and grab whatever you wanted, there wouldn’t be much incentive for you to go to a job you didn’t like. So maybe everything would collapse. After all, why would anyone even operate a grocery store, when they could just sit at home watching TV?>>Read more »
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