What is better than Capitalism?

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FourWinds F
FourWinds Sep 9, 2003 11:39:38
Replying to morfe lux

I don't see that money can be scrapped altogether. Even if you dispose of coinage there's still a price.

I do believe though that it would be possible to make, say, bread and milk free to everyone everywhere. State owned herds and the farmers paid by the state (through taxes).

It would obviously have to be completely global though. People would not abuse the system, because there'd be no point. Why pick up 10 loaves and 500 pints of milk when there's no resale value in it? People would (on the whole) just take what they need.

That would take care of a chunk of most peoples basic needs.

M morfe lux
morfe lux Sep 9, 2003 16:07:01
Replying to FourWinds

But what about people's freedom to choose? There are 1000's of different types of bread (I know we could bake them ourselves!) and does the People's Milk Board use non-intensive methods? Does it provide no-fat, half-fat and full fat milk? Does it deliver as well as produce? Who funds it's production? Do we need milk, is it one of life's daily necessities or have we adopted it as such in certain of our cultures??

But your idea of free food has set me thinking. All food could be free, unless it was prepared/cooked food. Food grown i the ground, an has done for all time, it's only in the relative last millisecond of our history we have adopted dependency to marketeers and producers.