This is a preposterous idea. We would still work, but for different reasons. We would not work hard to get money for OURselves and OUR families, we would work to make shoes so we would have shoes. We would grow food so that we may have food, and so that other people would make shoes.

We would no longer be inhibited by a profit-based world. We would no longer make products to break, or intentionally make less efficient products in order to maximize profit. Instead, we would maximize efficiency.

Poverty and starvation would fail to exist. No longer would we kill our brothers because they wave a different flag. The human race would exceed our every expectation in the fields of science and technology.

Money is not a tool of production, it is a tool of enslavement.

Take a family that makes $2000 a month in an area like Southern California, where I’m from. Around half of that is taken out for rent. My neighbors and I spend on average $995. My neighbors have given up their car (they made the choice to have the bank take it back because they couldn’t afford it.) They gave up cell phones altogether, they only had one credit card that they got when they had a good job trying to build their credit for a future. They lost their job while she was eight months pregnant with their first child and as a result, they lost their health insurance just before the baby was born. All their savings went to paying doctors bills. They now have to live and support their family on $1800 dollars, which must pay $1000 for a two bedroom one bath home, $300 for health insurance which they need for their child and because she’s pregnant again. (Yes, she was on birth control, don’t start your crap about irresponsibility unless you plan to abstain from sex altogether if you ever hit hard times!) When they gave up their car, she lost her part time job delivering pizza, which brought in an extra $200/month. Add to that $1300 in expenses 200 for utilities, 200 for food, and they have exactly $100 dollars for gas a month. Driving a 40 year old Chevy truck. If he takes the bus he’ll never see his family, and he lives in the opposite direction of any possible carpool buddies. Now, please explain how this family can fix their problems since she’s 6 months pregnant, is at my house every day looking up job opportunities and using my phone to call to the temp agencies for an opening, has logged twenty one weeks worth of 8-10 hour days looking for work (I watch their son, so yes, I know this for a fact) and has gotten exactly ONE interview that led to nothing. No, they make too much for any government assistance other than WIC, which they use, and can’t get on Medi-Cal because his job offers insurance. You people tell me how they “live beyond their means.” They don’t go out to eat, they don’t even have a Netflix or anything to break up their time at home for crying out loud! Don’t preach, not everyone lives beyond their means and “deserves” to be poor. A lot of families are suffering, and your callousness is just disgusting!

Society is just an aesthetic image of how we (America) lives. It’s a thin thin layer put in place to make us think that we’ve come a long way from the invention of the wheel. But should that image ever start to fail, it would be like dominoes crashing, there’s no stopping them. And all the anger towards society, law, government, MONEY, and everything else that p***es everyone off on the inside would come out! And on that day, the 95% of americans that are poorer than the top 1% will reclaim the money and authority that was stolen from them though this faulty system of society. Because this isn’t a fairy tale – we aren’t going to have a hero that comes sweeping in and steals from the rich, and gives to the poor… Oh no, WE have to be that hero, when the day comes!