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What would happen if the world were to eliminate money uniformly and all exchange in kind?

What would happen if the world were to eliminate money uniformly and all exchange in kind?

'Money was created from barter. If money were abolished it would be a sign that human society has regressed. That would be unscientific and uncivilized, with no potential for development.

This assumption of yours is equivalent:

What would happen if the world stopped eating cooked food and all switched to the primitive kind of raw food ......

Can you imagine?

The purpose of all animals to live is first to survive and second to progress.

After obtaining one stage, one progresses to the next stage of history, where new ways of life, means of survival, will not hesitate to replace the old, backward, inefficient ...... everything.


The development of social division of labor is so fine and high-end case, are you willing to "carry 2 high-speed rail, go to Saudi Arabia to carry back 200,000 barrels of oil? And then carry 100,000 barrels of oil, go to the United States to drag back 50,000 chips ......".


So, there will be no regression to a state of thousands of years unless the human race goes completely extinct, plus making all the animals on the planet with a brain intelligence higher than that of humans go extinct!

See the primitive societies depicted in textbooks and movies? Yes, if currency is abolished, it won't take many years to go back to that scenario.

The reason why human beings are distinguished from other animals, is the division of labor, and each other after the division of labor fruits of labor exchange, this process kind of language, writing, from the human race to the road to civilization; and the pursuit of exchange of efficiency and credit, in order to let the human wealth continue to increase, this process reflects the human nature, which can be said that the emergence of the currency and the continuous development of the human nature and the social The inevitable product of development.

Therefore, things that go against human nature and the trend of social development are, firstly, very difficult to happen, and secondly, in the event that they do occur in certain localized areas, they will be quickly drowned by the torrent of history.

Also, by the way, the role of money is: a medium of exchange of value; a means of measuring value; a vehicle for storing value; and, money can increase in value itself by earning interest. So, embrace our currency, love our currency, and don't cancel it!

There will be a return to a primitive society, this is not even to be thought of.

The economic development of modern society depends on the circulation of information, resources, people and money. The exchange of goods for goods will lead to the lack of a suitable intermediary medium, and the circulation of goods will be very difficult. The most direct result may be that the society can't divide labor well. Imagine if a person is engaged in self-media and creativity, he himself does not do any production, what can he get in exchange for food? He has to work in the field and exchange the rice he grows for vegetables? Then this industry will not soon die out, many occupations can not appear. Therefore, the intermediary medium of money is the inevitable product of social development to a certain extent, there is no possibility of no money.

Analyze the scene, if you are a cattle breeder, want to buy a house, you will take a herd of cattle to the sale of the Department of the transaction, the scene is how spectacular ah, if you want to eat a bowl of noodles in the street, I do not know how the boss will find you what items, perhaps chickens and ducks, perhaps pigs and dogs, your family's substance may be able to open a zoo!

It may not be convenient, imagine a supermarket checkout line are holding their own things, what turnip pickles pots and pans, sows and old cows and what to change around, a little bit of effort ah!

You this idea is quite interesting, from your question although I do not know what you are majoring in, but it should not be economy related majors, the emergence of money from the earliest bebi, money itself does not have any value, the real value is a complete set of value system behind it, if there is no money things will lose its value, of course, even if the abolition of goods, coins, there will be another name is not the same but the function of the The same thing will appear. This is a basic need to maintain the state of society. By your hypothesis, what happens when currency is abolished:

1. Things cannot be measured, causing all things to lose their value;

2. The collapse of all industries except agriculture, because there is no way to measure them, and even if they could be bartered, it would be meaningless without fair value;

3, the collapse of the moral system, the value system is more binding on morality than you can imagine, so it can be said that so morality is derived from the value system;

4. The concept of the state disappears, and in a state of barter, the state has no meaning at all, so the state as an aggregation dissipates.

Overall it is regressive, endlessly regressive, with only the most basic necessities for survival having barter value.

This is not possible, otherwise it would mean a regression in society, because in real life we need not only goods, but also services, where goods are physical and services are non-physical.

Let's make a hypothetical, you offer me the service of singing, how am I supposed to give you something, what am I going to exchange to you in kind?

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