“Society could function without money if we truly cared about each other”
Agree
- Gift economies work in small communities
- Money creates artificial scarcity
- Humans cooperated for millennia without currency
- Compassion beats transactions
- Money corrupts natural generosity
Disagree
- Scale requires accounting systems
- Trust doesn't scale to millions
- Value transfer needs measurement
- Free riders would destroy it
- Complexity demands abstraction
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