[thepill]

I stand behind by the general statment but...

>... What’s shocking to me is how much everyone still cares about money

Sadly this is easy to say if you have enough of it to be happy - a lot of humans cant say that. (Saying this beeing happy ;))

[neuralkoi]

Money is a useful tool for complex societies. It means I don't have to trade a chicken for a bag of potatoes. However, this tool has also been hijacked by those in power to maintain control.

In our current system, a box full of rocks painted to look like nickel can have the same monetary value as the actual nickel. See:

JPMorgan Had Some Fake Nickel https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-21/jpmorg...

Also the government can just make more money (i.e. to avoid defaulting), devaluing your own money in the process, like some sort of indirect tax.

[azaras]

I think he speaks of the people with enough money to cover their needs well. Elons Musks, Warrens Buffets and so on...

He is not a moron to think that a boy in a slum has not to worry about money.

[ge96]

There's an episode in Lower Decks where a civilization is burning money since they have "replicators" and you can just make anything. Assuming you have free energy (sun) and automated manufacturing, maybe that could be possible but I wonder if the concept of money ever goes away. I still believe in merit eg. why try if you get the same pay as doing less. And doing it for fun... But this is why open source Linux devices have broke cameras (no drivers).