12-11-2010, 06:24 PM
(12-11-2010, 05:23 AM)Lorna Wrote: what i really came on to post though was your reference to most people not liking their jobs - it's always within your power to find the joy and the love in whatever you do.
then how about finding joy while working as a slave in a negative 4th density planet ?
(12-11-2010, 05:45 PM)zenmaster Wrote: With the crowd-sourcing capability of the internet, bartering could be facilitated. Services could be infinitely more efficient and customizable than they are now.
someone commented very aptly regarding the subject in some other board :
'in a dog eat dog environment, you eventually end up with one very fat dog'.
as long as profit and ownership concepts remain, even the barter system will end up creating entities or groups who hold much more power than others through their wealth.
there were wealthy merchants influencing the fate of events back before lydians invented coins (hence money) before 600 BC too.