The real problem with money is that it symbolizes and stands for materialistic values. Get rid of materialism and possessionism and we’ve got it made. This will require a radical change in common human thinking. Possessionism drives the American culture. It drives the economy.
You cannot survive in America without money. You need money to buy gas to go to work to make money. You need money to buy clothes to protect yourself from the elements. You need money to buy food and water in order to sustain and nourish yourself. You need money to get an education and to learn in order to make so you can survive. You need money to buy stuff, the purpose of life. You need money to enjoy life because if you don’t have it, you’re living under an underpass in a cardboard box surviving on what you can steal and the handouts you get on the street corner.
So how can the very essence of survival ever be conceivably eliminated? There has to be a change, slowly but surely, away from possessionism. It’s time for some good, old-fashioned Marxism. Yeah, that’s right, give me some socialism and communism that isn’t in that perverted, Russian dictatorship form. Hit me up with it. Steal from the rich; give to the poor, and everything’s kosher. Abolish the class structure and have strict monetary standards. You can only have this amount of money and this many cars, etc. Everything over the limit is dispersed to the lower classes, until everyone is equal. Should there be any excess after that, the government gets to keep it. The government is responsible for enforcing the economic limits. Big Brother will be watching, and hopefully they will do a good job. The crux of the plan is the people. Everyone will be watching everyone else because they don’t want to anyone to get an edge on them. So, the vigilance of the people is a must.
Once the class structure is abolished, the need for more and better stuff will be eliminated. Certainly, the new structure of everyone being equal will be hard to obtain. And, for sure, people will try to get more stuff than they are allowed. But the deterrent of punishment and the knowledge that anyone can turn them in will limit these cases, hopefully. The greed for more will still exist, but harsher consequences could follow actions on that greed.
So, we now have everyone at the same economic level. No one will be in a job they hate just to make a lot of money, as they will all pay the same. Flipping burgers or doing brain surgery, they pay check is equal. Unemployment is illegal. You have to work if the government is going to bail you out of poverty and raise you to equality. This welfare only works if you have a steady job. I don’t see a problem with this because there is going to be a need for a lot of Economic Equality enforcement agents. Sounds sort of New Dealish, in a way.
How will the government get funding for all this? Well, not having money has never stopped them from spending before. Debt doesn’t matter because we’re working to eliminate money and possessionism. If there is no money, how can you owe it?
What effect will this have on the economy? Adverse. Business will be in a lot of trouble because they’ll be shelling out a lot of salary to normally minimum wage people. As for the prices of products, people can’t really buy anything because it’s government regulated. Basically, the government is business, supplying all the citizens with everything. But if everyone is equal economically, why would you need more stuff?
It sounds very contradictory to the Jaridian dogma of thinking for yourself and asserting individuality if everyone is the same economically. But then again, it goes right along the path of trying to get rid of materialistic values. I am willing to sacrifice economic diversity and class structure in order to produce a world without possessionism. It will be better in the end if people stop worrying about the stuff they have and start thinking about important stuff, like how to have peace and keep from destroying the planet. Economic and class diversity is unnecessary, therefore it should be eliminated.