Money facilitates trade. Trade benefits all parties involved.
OP has been spouting this nonsense for as long as I've seen his user name on these forums.
Now, I could get behind the idea that we need to abandon money which is created and controlled by a select few and the majority of the benefit is funnelled to those few, but that isn't what the OP is proposing.
Money facilitates greed. Humans facilitate trade. You can simply ask for something and receive something without the need to hand each other monopoly money.
When you trade something for no monetary gain you are still receiving something in return. You receive positive energy, peace, happiness, pick your label. Helping others makes you happy and that is what life is about. You can own the world but it doesn't mean a damn thing if you're not happy.
The nations without money in the past have all been hyper-violent; this occurs because the socialist countries, without a pricing mechanism, run out of resources made in a market system and can't figure how to distribute new ones efficiently enough, thus resulting in a need for this nation to conquer to keep itself going and a need to enslave and murder its own members to keep what's left functioning. We saw this with the purely moneyless societies of the past and continue to see this with partially socialist nations of today, where non-market institutions interfere and, for example, commit to hidden taxes via inflation to support massive militaries to commence the conquering; the trend is, the more moneyless a society gets (that is, the less money in the hands of the individual controls his surroundings wherein politics supersedes his decision making), the more chaos ensues.
Money is the root of all evil like guns are the root of all murders like books are the root of all philosophy like cat memes are the root of the Internet like art is the root of all creativity like machines are the root of all productivity. Money is not a symbol of greed; it is merely another tool which is falsely attributed to acts which only humans can commit to. To wish for the removal of money as a means to attain peace is to wish for the removal of computers as a means to protect children: it's missing the fundamental human component which greed inhabits to begin with. Money does not inflate itself; money does not initiate war; money does not starve nor impoverish anyone, it is an object, it cannot think or do or say or control. Only people can do this, and these people exist to commit evil acts with or without the existence of money,
and have proven to be much more effective without.If it's true that voluntary exchange is always peaceful, then world peace is achieved through global voluntaryism. Nothing more, nothing less; it's not any real puzzle, it's a very basic, logically simple argument--the difficulty is in the emotional toll required of us as a species to recognize where our involuntary associations are and to stop them. Where we are forced to follow, violence, war, slavery, famine, and other thefts always succeed; peace can only be achieved when these associations end, when we allow each other the right to decide who we will associate with and who we will not, whether it be friends, family, businesses or leaders. When we assert that someone must be jailed for disagreeing with our politics (say, for example, putting someone in jail because they like a similar gender, or because they wanted to keep their hard-earned cash for themselves), we lend ourselves to the increasing detriment of society.
I call bullox. Plenty of civilizations have coexisted with nature through peaceful communities that shared resources.
Money's sole purpose is to mark possession. It's sole purpose is greed, paint it up as nice as you want, the purpose of money is saying this is mine and that is yours. Is money the root of all evil? No, our ego's are. And money is the tool our ego's invented to facilitate and enable our possessive, greedy, divisionary lifestyles.
If it's true that voluntary exchange is always peaceful, then world peace is achieved through global voluntaryism.
That's why I said we must abandon money to attain world peace. So long as you can buy another man's will, corruption will ensue.
World peace is beyond money, true peace, that is. World peace is an ascension of human consciousness where negativity no longer encumbers earth and every soul on this planet is gaining inner peace by every passing minute. When we rid ourselves of negativity, then we are truly free from all restraints and life becomes heaven, anything becomes possible.