Bartering in a cashless society

[Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>]

At 08:20 AM 2/13/99 -0500, chatski carl wrote:

>>The first requirement for a healthy and sustainable society is the
>>elimination of money, public and private.  Or anything like it.
>>This is ultimate libertarianism - every act 100% voluntary - no act
>>coerced.

>In a coercion-free environment you still don't barter in goods
>exclusively.  But you are very careful about whose i.o.u's you take;
>in particular, you want to make sure they don't write them at their whim.
>
>But value (in money) in an economy is like energy (in calories) to
>an ecology.  It is the thing in flux.
>
>The future will see increasingly refined abstractions of chickens
>(and centichickens and kilochickens) being exchanged,
>and how humans do this has been getting more intense since Mr.
>Morse's telegrams..
>

The elimination of cash is the start of total control.  The introduction
can be
as sweet and reasonable as can be.  ie lower crime, increase tax collection
efficiency.

Once in place a future regeme can force it's population to play or else
your means
of buying/selling will be stopped.

Genetics can/is available through things like the "terminator gene" to
force
producers to purchase new seed/stock rather than storing surplus and using
that to maintain own crops etc.  Targeted diseases could destroy
non-approved
plants/animals so bartering becomes less likely.

You can't eat strong encryption.  It may become completely irrelevant.  "I
can't read your mail so
I'll starve you."