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I say I agree with you 100% this world is a bad place. We should just share everything. This is a very deep thing to think about.

I've wondered why money was created several years ago... I still wonder now-a-days.

You work for what you've got. 'If you don't work, you don't eat,' as they always say. Sorry to seem heartless or, y'know, realistic, but I'm willing to bet that 'hobo' has plenty of opportunity to make something of himself instead of sitting out on the street begging for chump change and digging for scraps. What's stopping him from renting a mailbox, getting some nice clothes from the Goodwill, and finding a way to get a shave and a haircut? Unless he's totally disabled, he should have no excuse as to why he isn't doing everything he can. Hell, they've got organizations to which people like that can turn, but some are just too pig-headed and prideful to accept the help. If that's the case, then more power to 'em. If they want to eat out of dumpsters for the rest of their lives, that's their right.

Also, all that tree-hugger nonsense about sharing everything and not having currency or a system built on making yourself who you are? Yeah, that type of Communist thinking never got anybody anywhere, and history is a testament of that fact. I see no reason why I, as a hard-working American, should have to share what I've earned with some lazy b*****d down the street who can't get off his fat a** and work for a living like the rest of us. We bust our a** for what we have, and yet we're the bad guys? We're the ones who are 'more fortunate' than them and therefore need to give up what we earned through hard work just so that they can feel better about themselves? Sorry sweetheart, but as much as I may hate Capitalism, I most dearly detest Communism just the same. Everybody makes themselves who they are, and I'm not about to give what I've worked for to someone else unless I so decide.

Now that that's off my chest, I can't say I wouldn't personally give folks like that a hand if I were able. At the least giving them a nice set of clothes, a shower, a good grooming, and a mailbox, and set them up with the right forms to ship 'em off back to school so they can learn a trade and find a decent-paying job, and actually contribute to society instead of draining it.

I agree. Money seems to just make things worse. But without money, the world will just revert back to trading and bartering, which will make common objects into something of value, like money. What really is the problem is the negative personality traits that cause the evil that is connected to money. I don't think the world was ever really a sharing-and-caring place. What's worse is that people are giving everything a price. I think some things need a set value that won't ever exceed that value, but other things don't need to cost anything. For some reason, a better education requires money. Why? Because teachers need a salary. Why? Because they need to pay for food, clothes, and shelter. We need jobs to pay for the education, in addition to food, clothes, and shelter.
Basically, pay for an education so that we can get a good job so that we can earn money to pay for the essentials and -in turn- pay for the education.
It's all just one big circle, and the way society has been working for hundreds of years, there doesn't seem to be a way out.

The best way I can put this is simply. . . naive.

It would be wonderful if everyone could actually just share everything and support each other when they have troubles, but only when they do so by CHOICE. (Which I think is what you mean?)

However, the problem is not that everyone must learn to be nice to one another, the problem is that it is impossible to make every single person kind and willing to self-sacrifice for others. There are communist nations originally founded because it is a genuinely beautiful and wonderful idea; however it always, without fail, leads to disaster.
The sad fact is that there will always be people who want more than what others have and are willing to go to any lengths to get it. Most people are inherently selfish, some more than others, but we learn to give of our selves as we grow and learn right from wrong.

Money does nothing.
People do not kill for money, they don't beg for money, they don't even desire money.
They do not hunger for money and they do not thirst for money.

What people want, desire, and fight for is the power which money gives. 'Money' is nothing more than paper or a few metals of little value. We are the ones who give it value, choosing to use currency as the 'middle man'.
Rather than trading a gallon of goats milk for a new shirt*, a person can trade their milk for money and use that to go and buy the shirt** (or anything else if they change their mind about wanting the shirt but still didn't need the goats milk).

Even before people used currency, they still did bad things and caused others harm because it would benefit them, even if for no other reason than causing that harm makes them happy.

* Which may involve several other trades because the tailor who made the shirt doesn't want milk.
Such as: milk traded for fruit, fruit traded for nice cloth, nice cloth traded for new shirt. (all of which would be complex transactions)

** Which only involves two very neat and simple trades: Milk for money, money for shirt.

Sink your teeth into forever...

Like I said before, unbreakable circle. What I really meant was that without money, the world as we know it -both the good and the bad- wouldn't exist. Money sort of simplifies things...in a way. Looking back on the days of trading objects for other objects, the value of certain objects depend on how one interprets their values, making things very complicated. Yes, it would be wonderful if money didn't cause so many issues, but the world can't work without some form of currency.