SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agoImagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization.message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down15
arrow-up18arrow-down1message-squareImagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization.SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareilliterate_coder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·9 months agoCommerce is just the exchange of goods and services. If we all stop exchanging goods, in what sense would we have a civilization? What would you or anyone accomplish if you had to grow your own food, make your own clothes, build your own house…?
minus-squareHamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months agoCommerce is fine, greed is not. OP missed that distinction.
Commerce is just the exchange of goods and services. If we all stop exchanging goods, in what sense would we have a civilization? What would you or anyone accomplish if you had to grow your own food, make your own clothes, build your own house…?
Commerce is fine, greed is not. OP missed that distinction.