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Hence, I said, upthread, that money allows human existence beyond a hunter-gatherer or subsistence farmer level. I never said that humans need money to exist at all (although without money they obviously would exist in much fewer numbers because the infrastructure essential for high populations...

LOL the Kibutzes failed spectacularly, the ones that survived are completely privatized. Seriously, am I being pranked? Are the right-wingers here genuinely advocating for Communism now? Because holy fucking shit. And no shit that humans created money. Did I ever say otherwise?

And that's exactly what you, a member of this thread, is saying. Money is bad, we can totally live without it = arguing against the concept of money, it's the exact same fucking thing. If you meant something else state your meaning in plain English instead of larping as an SB mod and trying to...

It's impossible for any human community larger than a family, for any longer than a couple of years. Including a Christian one. I was not strawmanning. In fact, you're trying to argue right this fucking minute that society doesn't need money.

Which to me sounds like a codeword for a communist utopia. Maybe in the afterlife such a thing is possible, but that's not my place to say. Here in the mortal world, this is an impossibility.

I stated very clearly a few posts upthread that I definitely don't consider all Christians zealots, and that greed is definitely bad and can be a huge problem. But abolishing money altogether is a way too extreme (and stupid) solution. It's like rooting out insurgents by dropping a nuclear bomb...

Excuse me, but members of this thread said that the very concept of money is the problem. You're currently speaking for yourself only.