No one is,acting like an enlightened anything. I'm just giving a viewpoint. You are interpreting it in a certain way. You are putting in emotion that my typed words aren't using.
Who said,anything about Amish? That's your limited stereotype of anything outside your mall,shoe store, Starbucks world that you've only allowed yourself to understand.
If all the money burned tomorrow,nothing would need to change. Money didn't create the machinery that makes things.Money didn't grow things from the ground. Money doesn't give any resource life.
We have all the resources we need.
Where did we start complying to people who said- unless you give us money,you can't have this or that...?
You feel the need to defend someone who reduced your life to needing money to live and be considered normal by other people just because you all chase rings on a merry go round.
Insanity = doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
5 days on,2 days off for your entire life. ...that is insanity. But you've been trained to call it normal. You think lesser of people for not being a good slave like you. (I'm generalizing here. I'm not calling you anything.i mean the collective you)
Actually, if money disappeared tomorrow we would be monumentally fucked, in ways that I'm sure you don't understand.
You can cure your ignorance by reading this book.
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created. by William Bernstein
Since I doubt seriously you are going to read 400+ page book anytime soon, let me give some examples from the book on the value of money and our banking system brings to society.
Imagine an 18-year-old guy, that graduates from high school. He is recently orphaned and upon turning 18 he inherits his parent's farm. Everything was sold (or bartered in your moneyless society) and the farm consists of 40 acres and house, but nothing else. No cows, chickens, corn seed, plows, tractors, trucks, harvesting machines, apple trees or pigs. The young man feels exactly like you. I'm not going to be a wage slave, I"m going self-dependent grow my own food, and live off the grid.
What I'd like you to do is explain, in detail, how in world without money, the young farmer obtains the seed, chickens, cows, tractors, plows etc. that he needs to be self-sufficient.
In contrast, in the evil capitalist society where everyone worships the almighty dollar, the process is pretty simple. He goes to a bank and takes out a loan, using the farmland as colleteral. He then uses that money to buy all the stuff, I just talked about. Now he may not have enough collateral and credit history to buy the very best farm equipment, but he can borrow enough to start out.
One of the less obvious benefits of money is that it allows the establishment of debt. It turns out that society is often better off giving people something today and expecting them to repay that obligation in the future than forcing them to save (either money or breeding enough goats) to purchase/barter something all at once. Examples include it is better to loan money to an 18-year-old for a car so he can get a distant job rather than force him to only be able to work in places he can walk to. It is better for a 22-year-old to get a degree than 40 years olds, or twenty-somethings with two kids get a house, than a 60 year old empty-nesters.
