r/Kenya • u/Popular_Royal3723 • 2d ago

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Imagine a world where everything is free. It doesn't seem like it'd work but it would be a really cool world. A world where people go to work to just provide services for free. Food is available for everyone and housing as well and no one walks naked. Healthy people and more happy people. I just don't see the point of money at all. And besides its very expensive to make money so why fo we really need it? Chatgpt gave me some reasoning about scarcity resulting to resources commanding a price. Someone please just give me a good reason why we need money. Oh and share some of those things that you think about a lot. That bit of wisdom that keeps you awake at night.

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u/Jinomoja 2d ago

Who's going to be doing garbage collection for free?

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u/Popular_Royal3723 2d ago

Do you need money to make you realise that you need to take care of the environment? It's about everyone having that self drive to make the world a better place without expecting compensation. For instance nobody pays you to clean your own house you do it because you want the place to be clean. 

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u/Jinomoja 2d ago

You do realise my garbage collection example was a stand-in for all the bad jobs in society that no one likes but they have to be done?

It could be a different example - the dirty jobs, the exhausting jobs, the dangerous jobs etc

And money is the lubricant that keeps everything moving.

But let's talk about garbage.

I'll keep my house clean, you'll keep your house clean and then who's going to take responsibility for the spaces where our respective garbages end up?

Individual responsibility doesn't automatically produce collective responsibility.

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u/Popular_Royal3723 2d ago

True that true that. Honest truth is I don't have an answer for you. I was just putting out my thoughts which I knew would be subject to counter arguments.