• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Well you don’t need money at all to survive, you can just go into the woods and forage and survive that way, but it turns out it’s a lot of work, dangerous and not very effective, so people prefer living in a comfy place, and have comfy stuff and have readily available access to food and other services, but someone has to make that happen it’s not free and you doing adhoc tasks in exchange as in barter is just not effective and thus we have an introduced and intermediary thing called money, where you exchange your time for money and then you can exchange your money for goods and services.

    Now how we do this, aka capitalism is largely terrible as it rewards already having or accumulating capital ( as the name suggests) but that doesn’t mean that money as it is, is somewhat terrible.

    • huginn@feddit.it
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      2 hours ago

      ☝️🤓 actually people survived before money ! Fool !

      Lemme go tell my 80 year old grandma on a fixed income to go forage instead of heading to Albertsons.

      Money is required for survival in any nation where you’re getting a salary for your work. Dying 40 years early because your body gives out from giardia isn’t surviving.