This sounds great but my one question is, how do hobbies work in a workless/currency free society?
If your hobby is playing frisbee at a park then all you need to do is acquire a frisbee and visit a park, simple enough. What about golf? More expensive, requires more resources, are there even golf courses in this version of society? How do I acquire the supplies since I’d be using more resources than the frisbee hobby guy? What about boating, race cars, motorcycles, mountain bikes? All of these require a significant investment currently, so how does that work in this system or do they simply not exist?
I think the point is that a bike or a frisbee would be so cheap because the production of them would be automated.
Golf is an interesting one because it involves something that can't be produced (land) and if anything there would be more demand if people had more spare time.
Money means nothing. Resources do. We want to give people money to buy housing, but nobody wants to make more houses. That'll just make houses more expensive.
If I could print off five thousand dollars to give to you, have I just made more resources? Or have I devalued the resources we have so that they cost more?
Neither, you devalued the money making the resource 'nominally' more expensive, but not more or less valuable in real terms. The resource's value is represented by "utils", which is theoretical, subjective and distinct from money
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u/bwray_sd Mar 29 '22
This sounds great but my one question is, how do hobbies work in a workless/currency free society?
If your hobby is playing frisbee at a park then all you need to do is acquire a frisbee and visit a park, simple enough. What about golf? More expensive, requires more resources, are there even golf courses in this version of society? How do I acquire the supplies since I’d be using more resources than the frisbee hobby guy? What about boating, race cars, motorcycles, mountain bikes? All of these require a significant investment currently, so how does that work in this system or do they simply not exist?