World wide strike

[Teshna]

I was surfing around, and came across this:

From http://yabanji.tripod.com/id10.html

Quote:

If you agree that the abolition of money would be a fine solution to most of our problems, and that we could create a much better system where EVERYTHING - food and drink, clothing and housing, water, heating, education, health-care and entertainment - shall be FREE for EVERYONE - why not join the World-Wide Strike on the opening day of the Olympic Games in 2012?

The Strike will begin the moment the symbolic Olympic flame is lit - the signal for all who support the abolition of money to stop work and demand a new fair world of true freedom and justice.

WE WANT A MONEYLESS WORLD

It already has many followers, so its effect will be great.

A worldwide strike of every profession could lead to total anarchy. If we don't prepare for this one way or another, it could make matters much worse than the problems they intend to fix.

[Rocket Marine]

I predict that these idiots will get very few followers and produce no effect what so ever.

[Teshna]

Rocket Marine

I predict that these idiots will get very few followers and produce no effect what so ever.

They already have many.

[reishyn]

There have been plenty of events like this in the past. Trust me. It's not going to amount to much. Even if it does have a large following it would probably take numbers several times more to achieve anything and odds are the majority of such people won't go ahead with it anyway. All meeting all. It's going to fail.

[Teshna]

reishyn

There have been plenty of events like this in the past. Trust me. It's not going to amount to much. Even if it does have a large following it would probably take numbers several times more to achieve anything and odds are the majority of such people won't go ahead with it anyway. All meeting all. It's going to fail.

Out of curiosity, what like this has been done before?

[BlueCollarJoe]

reishyn

There have been plenty of events like this in the past. Trust me. It's not going to amount to much. Even if it does have a large following it would probably take numbers several times more to achieve anything and odds are the majority of such people won't go ahead with it anyway. All meeting all. It's going to fail.

Translation: Those without jobs want to be able to drive a Lexus and have a 52" HDTV, attend the Superbowl and bump uglies with starlets as well.
They should just arrest all fifty of these people and put them on a work farm.

[catspook]

I'm going to go out on a limb here an guess that a large percentage of these people either don't have a steady job to begin with, can afford to not work for a while, or will figure out pretty quickly that they better get back to work if they want to eat - in any case, I doubt it's going to affect much

[ratrapid]

Teshna

I was surfing around, and came across this:

From http://yabanji.tripod.com/id10.html

Quote:

If you agree that the abolition of money would be a fine solution to most of our problems, and that we could create a much better system where EVERYTHING - food and drink, clothing and housing, water, heating, education, health-care and entertainment - shall be FREE for EVERYONE - why not join the World-Wide Strike on the opening day of the Olympic Games in 2012?

The Strike will begin the moment the symbolic Olympic flame is lit - the signal for all who support the abolition of money to stop work and demand a new fair world of true freedom and justice.

WE WANT A MONEYLESS WORLD

It already has many followers, so its effect will be great.

A worldwide strike of every profession could lead to total anarchy. If we don't prepare for this one way or another, it could make matters much worse than the problems they intend to fix.

I've dealt with hippies before, get them to say there's a need for money themselves.

[BlueCollarJoe]

ratrapid

Teshna

I was surfing around, and came across this:

From http://yabanji.tripod.com/id10.html

Quote:

If you agree that the abolition of money would be a fine solution to most of our problems, and that we could create a much better system where EVERYTHING - food and drink, clothing and housing, water, heating, education, health-care and entertainment - shall be FREE for EVERYONE - why not join the World-Wide Strike on the opening day of the Olympic Games in 2012?

The Strike will begin the moment the symbolic Olympic flame is lit - the signal for all who support the abolition of money to stop work and demand a new fair world of true freedom and justice.

WE WANT A MONEYLESS WORLD

It already has many followers, so its effect will be great.

A worldwide strike of every profession could lead to total anarchy. If we don't prepare for this one way or another, it could make matters much worse than the problems they intend to fix.

I've dealt with hippies before, get them to say there's a need for money themselves.

Just show up with soap and delousing kits. They'll scatter like fat chicks at a treadmill factory.

[ratrapid]

BlueCollarJoe

ratrapid

Teshna

I was surfing around, and came across this:

From http://yabanji.tripod.com/id10.html

Quote:

If you agree that the abolition of money would be a fine solution to most of our problems, and that we could create a much better system where EVERYTHING - food and drink, clothing and housing, water, heating, education, health-care and entertainment - shall be FREE for EVERYONE - why not join the World-Wide Strike on the opening day of the Olympic Games in 2012?

The Strike will begin the moment the symbolic Olympic flame is lit - the signal for all who support the abolition of money to stop work and demand a new fair world of true freedom and justice.

WE WANT A MONEYLESS WORLD

It already has many followers, so its effect will be great.

A worldwide strike of every profession could lead to total anarchy. If we don't prepare for this one way or another, it could make matters much worse than the problems they intend to fix.

I've dealt with hippies before, get them to say there's a need for money themselves.

Just show up with soap and delousing kits. They'll scatter like fat chicks at a treadmill factory.

Oh no, this was a hippy I have to get on with; she's in all my classes.
"We should get rid of money so everyone is as wealthy as everyone else."
"Well why would anyone work?"
"Well people would trade."
"So a guy would build a house for an apple? He'd starve!"
"No! It'd get lots of apples."
"Well the builder's apples would go mouldy and he'd still starve. He needs something to get them over time."
"Yeah."
"But you cant be nourished of apples alone; you need lots of different foods."
"I suppose."
"And other things: clothes, healthcare, electricity."
"So?"
"Well how can one guy's work get him these things without building a house for all these things."
"Well the apple seller who he built the house for would give him a paper or sign or something to show this."
"You mean money."
"Oh."

This is more or less the conversation.

[BlueCollarJoe]

ratrapid

BlueCollarJoe

ratrapid

Teshna

I was surfing around, and came across this:

From http://yabanji.tripod.com/id10.html

Quote:

If you agree that the abolition of money would be a fine solution to most of our problems, and that we could create a much better system where EVERYTHING - food and drink, clothing and housing, water, heating, education, health-care and entertainment - shall be FREE for EVERYONE - why not join the World-Wide Strike on the opening day of the Olympic Games in 2012?

The Strike will begin the moment the symbolic Olympic flame is lit - the signal for all who support the abolition of money to stop work and demand a new fair world of true freedom and justice.

WE WANT A MONEYLESS WORLD

It already has many followers, so its effect will be great.

A worldwide strike of every profession could lead to total anarchy. If we don't prepare for this one way or another, it could make matters much worse than the problems they intend to fix.

I've dealt with hippies before, get them to say there's a need for money themselves.

Just show up with soap and delousing kits. They'll scatter like fat chicks at a treadmill factory.

Oh no, this was a hippy I have to get on with; she's in all my classes.
"We should get rid of money so everyone is as wealthy as everyone else."
"Well why would anyone work?"
"Well people would trade."
"So a guy would build a house for an apple? He'd starve!"
"No! It'd get lots of apples."
"Well the builder's apples would go mouldy and he'd still starve. He needs something to get them over time."
"Yeah."
"But you cant be nourished of apples alone; you need lots of different foods."
"I suppose."
"And other things: clothes, healthcare, electricity."
"So?"
"Well how can one guy's work get him these things without building a house for all these things."
"Well the apple seller who he built the house for would give him a paper or sign or something to show this."
"You mean money."
"Oh."

This is more or less the conversation.

Well stated. What your hippie friend doesn't seem to comprehend is, money is nothing more than a more effective barter system, which is what she is proposing.

[Vice Admiral Romeo Mike]

ratrapid

BlueCollarJoe

ratrapid

Teshna

I was surfing around, and came across this:

From http://yabanji.tripod.com/id10.html

Quote:

If you agree that the abolition of money would be a fine solution to most of our problems, and that we could create a much better system where EVERYTHING - food and drink, clothing and housing, water, heating, education, health-care and entertainment - shall be FREE for EVERYONE - why not join the World-Wide Strike on the opening day of the Olympic Games in 2012?

The Strike will begin the moment the symbolic Olympic flame is lit - the signal for all who support the abolition of money to stop work and demand a new fair world of true freedom and justice.

WE WANT A MONEYLESS WORLD

It already has many followers, so its effect will be great.

A worldwide strike of every profession could lead to total anarchy. If we don't prepare for this one way or another, it could make matters much worse than the problems they intend to fix.

I've dealt with hippies before, get them to say there's a need for money themselves.

Just show up with soap and delousing kits. They'll scatter like fat chicks at a treadmill factory.

Oh no, this was a hippy I have to get on with; she's in all my classes.
"We should get rid of money so everyone is as wealthy as everyone else."
"Well why would anyone work?"
"Well people would trade."
"So a guy would build a house for an apple? He'd starve!"
"No! It'd get lots of apples."
"Well the builder's apples would go mouldy and he'd still starve. He needs something to get them over time."
"Yeah."
"But you cant be nourished of apples alone; you need lots of different foods."
"I suppose."
"And other things: clothes, healthcare, electricity."
"So?"
"Well how can one guy's work get him these things without building a house for all these things."
"Well the apple seller who he built the house for would give him a paper or sign or something to show this."
"You mean money."
"Oh."

This is more or less the conversation.

lolz

[Bob Motley]

There will be enough fail in this alone to make it the butt of many jokes for decades to come.

[Teshna]

ratrapid

BlueCollarJoe

ratrapid

Teshna

I was surfing around, and came across this:

From http://yabanji.tripod.com/id10.html

Quote:

If you agree that the abolition of money would be a fine solution to most of our problems, and that we could create a much better system where EVERYTHING - food and drink, clothing and housing, water, heating, education, health-care and entertainment - shall be FREE for EVERYONE - why not join the World-Wide Strike on the opening day of the Olympic Games in 2012?

The Strike will begin the moment the symbolic Olympic flame is lit - the signal for all who support the abolition of money to stop work and demand a new fair world of true freedom and justice.

WE WANT A MONEYLESS WORLD

It already has many followers, so its effect will be great.

A worldwide strike of every profession could lead to total anarchy. If we don't prepare for this one way or another, it could make matters much worse than the problems they intend to fix.

I've dealt with hippies before, get them to say there's a need for money themselves.

Just show up with soap and delousing kits. They'll scatter like fat chicks at a treadmill factory.

Oh no, this was a hippy I have to get on with; she's in all my classes.
"We should get rid of money so everyone is as wealthy as everyone else."
"Well why would anyone work?"
"Well people would trade."
"So a guy would build a house for an apple? He'd starve!"
"No! It'd get lots of apples."
"Well the builder's apples would go mouldy and he'd still starve. He needs something to get them over time."
"Yeah."
"But you cant be nourished of apples alone; you need lots of different foods."
"I suppose."
"And other things: clothes, healthcare, electricity."
"So?"
"Well how can one guy's work get him these things without building a house for all these things."
"Well the apple seller who he built the house for would give him a paper or sign or something to show this."
"You mean money."
"Oh."

This is more or less the conversation.

Heh, yeah. Many people like that are out of touch with reality. But these guys seem to be coming from the same angle as the Venus Project. Which leads me to believe they may be slightly more organized.

They basically think that money itself isn't the main problem. But rather how the banks currently distribute it through our system today that is extremely unfair.

And bartering isn't the alternative. The Venus project purposes something called a "resource based economy." While I think this is a good idea and possible in the distant future, it certainly won't happen overnight like these guys seem to be hopping.

[I got bored one day]

It's all fine and good until the man selling the bread still demands coin.