Re: Bartering in a cashless society

[chatski carl <chatski@gl.umbc.edu>]

> At 08:20 AM 2/13/99 -0500, I 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.

 Note the expression "Or anything like it"
 That means _no barter_ !! No accounting. No measurement.
 
 I would like to clarify this with 2 points, one very touchy feely, which
 can be ignored if you please, and one very logical, which cannot be
 ignored.
 (1) If, while you are making love with someone, you are measuring what
     you 'give', and thus 'accounting' for what the other 'owes', you
     are missing the entire point.  Giving and receiving are both in the
     interest of both parties. ( In biological terms, symbiosis not
     parasitism. )
 (2) The impact of new technology is labor reduction.  Any work that
     people don't enjoy doing, can be eliminated.  In that environment
     there is no role for money, accounting, barter etc.
 
It is upsetting to see, in our society, how new technologies are perverted
to serve old paradigms and the existing power structure, rather than be
liberatory for all. (for example terminator genes, BW, the Internet, etc.)

The power of new technologies, dna modification, nuclear,
computer/communications, is too great to allow a stable social system
based on profit as the feedback mechanism.

The question of the historic moment, is whether we will transition to a
society appropriate to our level of technology without the intervening
genocide of the working class/under class and people of color.

Our current social systems waste 90% of the brain power and creativity of
the human race.

- Carl