If everything was free...
By nehalkuul
@nehalkuul (68)
India
December 11, 2012 3:40pm CST
I was just wondering the other that if everything was free and there was no race to go ahead ,would it make our lives simpler?? Well, one thing if everythings for free ,we need to do all our work by ourself , I think besides that there are no disadvantages to it
What do you'll think ?
8 responses
@peavey (16936)
• United States
11 Dec 12
It would be very hard to provide everything for ourselves. Would you be your own brain surgeon? Find a source for all the water you use? Grow all of your own food? Find out all the news you wanted on your own? Build your own home from trees you cut down? Made your own shoes?
There are cultures who do that or have done it, even then they bartered and worked together as communities. They've always lived on the edge of survival.
@nehalkuul (68)
• India
11 Dec 12
Exactly , but wouldnt all of it come down to passion ? Born farmers would be trained in farming and would want to grow food/crops etc. There are people who have a passion to spread important news to peopleand so on.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
12 Dec 12
Of course. And that's how it all started. Since some people spent more time doing the things they enjoyed, they didn't have time to do other things, so they traded their goods and services to others who did. Those who didn't have a special talent traded their labor so that those who had something going could produce more. Soon, they moved to trading tokens to simplify things... and then the tokens became money. And then... do you get the picture?
@Guit08 (597)
• United States
29 Dec 12
Well, this ideology has been tried in the past. For example, communism... If there was no such thing as money and everyone just was supposed to do everything for free, then let's face it, there would be no new innovation or progress. No matter what you may think, money really serves as a means of motivation for people. People work for money so that they can buy and do certain things. If everything was free, then what incentive would there be for people to work? Society would unfortunately fall apart -- or at least it would be very slow, ineffective and lazy...
@roshigo58 (4859)
• Pune, India
29 Dec 12
No, primafacie it would look like beautiful, better but it will last like a water bubble. Our life would be harder than simpler. There should always be a competition in te life so that the people will work effieciently and hard. If they know everything is receivable without paying anything then it has no value.
@starsfield (131)
• Indonesia
26 Dec 12
if everything is free then people will become lazy and the world will stay the same forever,,,creepy
@tech40 (23128)
• Philippines
16 Dec 12
You know what?
The world starts with *all free* but think why does people remove the *all free* system before?, it is because, there's some lazy people and instead of working, why they not buy or rent someone to do it for them?and that is how the Money System starts with,
