I just realized that I hate the idea of currency. Money is basically just a social construct that separates people from the food grown from the Earth and taking ownership over their own lives. Society is not organized in a way that allocates resources to those who need them efficiently, so societies around the world decided that they needed a market and currency. It is a form of defeatism to believe that currency or things are required in order to gain access to goods and services that our ancestors had massive amounts of for free. It’s not positive to say that I hate something, but for currency it’s already so negative I don’t think it can be any worse than it already is.
Currency is something that allows exploitation of people, prices of objects, and other goods and services. Its existence also perpetuates ideas that people do not deserve to be alive unless they are working a 9-5 in some office somewhere. Even disabled and elderly people live in a state of scarcity because of currency and a lack of support from society who will not choose the care of their own people over currency. Even if you attempt to form an intentional community or tribal society in most places, currency is required to keep it running which defeats the entire purpose of it.
Our ancestors were able to live without currency regardless of what we currently are. In some ways that life was even more preferable to the modern ways. Modern westerners will say that thinking like this falls into the noble savage trope, but what is savage about living in a way that is harmonious with nature and does not marginalize or exploit people? Only a capitalistic society that dumps oil into the ocean
I can understand currency existing as a very flawed way of allocating resources that are extremely rare and valuable and aren’t “necessary” for life or functioning in society, but I do agree that currency existing in the first place is defeatist.
Neoliberals accuse communists of being economically “illiterate” but 99 percent of communists I’ve met and conversed with and the socialist theorists I’ve read theory and essays from have a monumentally more accurate and pronounced understanding of resources and economics and make more accurate predictions than neoliberals do.
In the grand scheme of things, currency creates more problems than it solves, but in the lens of the exploitative, sociopathic puritanical wage slavery supporting view of capitalism, currency makes sense to exist.
