Re:The Milken Way - “The scarce resource in our society is n...
by southerntofu on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:57AM
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> Money has become a high score and its increasingly exclusive nature made it a status symbol.
Exactly. It's a mathematical abstraction for social status and privilege, not a tool that addresses human needs.
> not having children. Who's going to work for them when they are old?
This framing of the "aging" issue is based on our capitalist economies with the family as a foundational unit of society. In a cooperative economy, no one should have to worry about how to feed themselves when they grow old.
Exactly. It's a mathematical abstraction for social status and privilege, not a tool that addresses human needs.
> not having children. Who's going to work for them when they are old?
This framing of the "aging" issue is based on our capitalist economies with the family as a foundational unit of society. In a cooperative economy, no one should have to worry about how to feed themselves when they grow old.