X-Message-Number: 10889 From: "Timur Rozenfeld" <> Subject: Money Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 07:25:19 -0700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01BE227B.E898C380 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I agree that agreat deal of what we consider scarce today will not be tomorrow, but there still will be scarcity of a different nature. And I am not thinking of the bleak futures. However, only in the utopia that you describe where I can get whatever I want whenever I want it immediately, at no cost in producing it, will there be no need for trade. When nothing can be gained from other human beings, then there will be no need to trade and therefore no need for money. I find it hard to believe that there will be a time that there will be *nothing* to gain from interacting with human beings. And if there is something to be gained and you want first crack at it, you might have to trade for it, and some form of money will be convenient. Timur [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01BE227B.E898C380 Content-Type: text/html; Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10889