[MD] A society without money

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

Woods asked:
>    Serious questions:
>    Do we then get rations?
>    Are these rations based on a doctor's prescription as to how much we 
> allowed to eat?
>    How big are our houses?
>    If I have two bedrooms and you only have one, then me getting two beds 
> seems a bit unfair?
>    Will our houses look the same?
>    Furniture rationed?

Nah. Say you live in a community called "Really New York"
At first you do not work with anything, but you can still go to the food 
place and get yourself some basic food.
You don't need to be afraid of starving or being homeless, because you will 
also be provided with basic housing.
But the basic food and basic housing isn't all that fun, and sitting around 
all day isn't all that fun either. It's very static. So you say to yourself: 
"hey, I ant better housing and food!" and the only way you can get that is 
to find some work and get some credits you can exchange for a nicer house or 
better food. You think about it for a while "Do I want to build houses? Do I 
want to make TV? Nah, I think I want to be a farmer, it seems fun!" And so 
you go to school, which is free of course, and you learn everything there is 
to know abut farming, and then you tell the house-building guys to build you 
a farm, or you start working on a already existing farm. Turns out it's 
really hard work, but you are really good at it, and you produce really 
appreciated food. That earns you a lot of credits that you can exchange for 
a nice beach house that some Quality house-builder just built. You have what 
you need and the harder you work, the more credits you get that you can 
exchange for stuff that other people produce. If you decide to start a 
family you could of course use your credits to buy clothes for you kids, but 
you can't give them your credits when you die, they have to earn their own 
credits. But one of your kids turns out to be a real thinker, always 
searching for answers, and early on decides to dedicate her life to science. 
Luckily there is nothing material that can stop her from cultivating her 
interests, and she might even grow up to invent a replicator or something, 
because in this world her genius wasn't wasted because of material 
circumstances, and humanity moves on.

Hmm. yeah, I've got a bit of a hangover so this is probably quite random, 
but hey, let's implement the principle of generosity: try to make it work if 
you think something doesn't, and if you can't: tell me what the problem is.

Peace, love and all that stuff

//Chris