Kill the Economy

[AlexSatan]

155. Well, it is safe to say you have never worked a farm

I hate to break it to you but that is just as much slavery as you seem to think of it. You certainly have to work to live in that case.

Sure you don't have to get up and tend to things (and there is ALWAYS something to tend to) but then again you don't have to eat the next year, right?

I get the impression you think that corporations are bad and we would all be better off just working little plots of land. It's a lot of work and could work out. Until that storm destroys your crop. Or drought. Or insects.

And you need someone to specialize in creating things you can't grow. So you need to grow extra so you can trade with that person for the things you want/need. Do you give him everything you have? No. Do you give him enough to fully survive the entire year? Nope. You give him what you think is a reasonable amount that he will agree to.

And hauling around crops to each person you need stuff from is a pain, so you might develop something simpler like circles of metal or sheets of paper that represent a certain amount of crops. And sometimes those specialty folks have so many people who want their goods that they give stuff to other people to help them do the work to provide those goods.

And eventually you have a system with companies and workers. Sorry, that is just the reality of society.

BTW, if I decide I don't want to "work to live" will you feed, cloth and house me?