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What If Money Expired? (www.noemamag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza to c/humanities

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[–] mermaldad 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm trying to understand how retirement and disability would work in such a monetary system. While the hoarding of wealth by the rich is a problem in the current system, it seems like devaluing all savings would make anyone who can't work worthless.

[–] sculd 2 points 1 year ago

It can't, which is why no country will use this system.

There are plenty of ways in which we can combat unnecessary accumulation of wealth (cough, tax, cough). A depreciating currency is not one of them.

Even communism might be easier to administer than this suggested monstrous system.

[–] liv 1 points 1 year ago

Yes this was pretty telling:

Instead, an individual’s economic success would be tied directly to the quality of their work and the strength of their ideas. Gesell imagined this would create a Darwinian natural selection in the economy: “Free competition would favor the efficient and lead to their increased propagation.”