8
9

Money in an anarchistic society (self.Anarchy101)

mac_mcmac が 投稿

並べ替え:
ベスト
トップ新着論争中古い順Q&A
あなたは単独のコメントのスレッドを見ています。

残りのコメントをみる →

[–]scientific_thinker 6ポイント7ポイント  (4子コメント)

You sound like an individualist anarchist or market anarchist.

I don't think money or markets work very well in the first place so it is easy for me to imagine something better.

Let's talk about markets. They don't distinguish between needs and wants.

There is a compound that cures African Sleeping sickness. This same compound gets rid of female facial hair. When the market is faced with saving millions of Africans from a deadly disease or removing female facial hair, it chooses whichever pays best (removing female facial hair). This is not remotely efficient or desirable.

Source: Joshua Farley: Economics of the Anthropocene (this is a great video by the way. I highly recommend watching it.)

Money can be improved upon too. Imagine walking into a room where everyone is hungry. You happen to have two loves of bread. You know bread goes bad. You know you can't eat it all yourself. Your best option is to share with the other people in the room, investing in good will from the community.

Every natural thing that can be used by people decays over time. This means the best strategy is to share the surplus with others with the expectation that they will do the same. Hoarding is not a reasonable strategy. With money (or gold or any other thing being used as money) there is no decay. Sharing in this case is an inferior strategy to hoarding.

The ability to hoard means money is more likely to lead to inequality and hierarchy than say a gift economy of sharing natural goods.

[–]strangelycutlemon 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Hold on, though. You assumed very quickly that, in a market freed from capitalism, such a compound commands a greater price from the producers of medicine than it does from the producers of hair product. I don't see a good reason to believe that.

However, I'm at work, so I can't watch the video you linked.

[–]chalky109 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

what/u/scientific_thinker is refering to isn't even a theoretical example. Check this article

[–]scientific_thinker 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hold on, though. You assumed very quickly that, in a market freed from capitalism, such a compound commands a greater price from the producers of medicine than it does from the producers of hair product.

I made no such assumption. Even at the same price or cheaper, markets would sell to wealthy women who can afford it rather than poor Africans that can't. It is about purchasing power, not price.

The point being there are lots of ways to distribute resources among people. Markets make sure those with the most wealth get to step to the front of the line (no surprise the wealthy like how markets distribute resources). How about start with the greatest need and work our way down. Why not use a system based on first come, first serve? Not as good as the first idea but I would argue better than markets. These are just two examples off of the top of my head. I am sure you and others could think of lots of ways to distribute resources that are more fair and free than a market.

[–]TotesMessenger 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:

If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / Contact)