Why do we need money? I mean, I know the world would collapse because we’re generally all uncivilised bastards, but if there was proper world peace and we weren’t the product of generations of money-grabbing barbarians, would we really need money?
As far as I’m concerned, money just creates problems. How many times have you felt depressed about your lack of money? How many times have you spent too much on a night out or gambled too much of it away and felt guilty? How many bankers and ‘celebrities’ are being paid a shit-load just to do jobs that ‘normal’ people could do. I suppose it all comes down to power and the evolution of man to be greedy and always want more. But in my eyes, money is making the world a horrible place to live in.
Why should there be whole continents that struggle in poverty when there are some individuals with more worth than a small country’s GDP? Imagine a world were everyone could live without the fear of debt and not being able to put food on the table (if you can even afford a table to put it on). Imagine a world where your luxuries depended on the difficulty of the job you did, and everyone could eat a healthy amount of food every day for free. Imagine a life where there wasn’t undesirable places to live and you didn’t have to worry about people trying to steal what you had. Imagine a life where you didn’t have to feel like shit just because some rich cunt is looking down their nose at you. Imagine a life where you could do what you enjoy without having to worry about whether you could afford it or not. Imagine a life where you could go anywhere on Earth without having to save up for an extortionate plane fare. Imagine a life where oil companies weren’t making billions of Dollars every year as a result of screwing over Joe Public.
It’s hard to imagine what that would be like. And why? Because generations before us have screwed up our societies so much that we have to rely on little bits of paper and numbers on a balance sheet to get us through the day. You can’t do anything without money being involved. Even walking down the street and seeing the odd coin lying on the pavement makes you think about whether it’s worth picking up and what people would think of you if you did. What has the world come to when we need to fundraise just so people in other parts of the world have access to clean water?
I very much doubt I’ll see any kind of resolution to these problems in my lifetime. In fact, I very much doubt that these problems will ever be solved. Governments can get together and think up crackpot ideas to try to fix things, but there’s not a chance in hell that more tax and a bit of recycling is ever going to make the world a better place to live in.