A Future Without Money

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Many dream of a future with lots of money, other where currency is a thing of the past, a prosperous post-scarcity civilization, but could such a future be possible? And what would a society without money be like? Start Forging New Worlds: https://www.worldanvil.com/isaac-arthur Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/M0VvQB0CW48 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Episode's Audio-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/a-future-without-money Episode's Narration-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/a-future-without-money-narration-only Credits: A Future Without Money Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 310, September 30, 2021 Written by Isaac Arthur & Jerry Guern Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur Editors: Dillon Olander Jason Burbank Keith Blockus Konstantin Sokerin Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Udo Schroeter Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners.
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0:20.0	This episode is brought to you by World Anvil.
0:23.7	Many of us dread a future in which we don't have any money, but that might not feel so
0:28.3	bad, actually, as long as the rest of the world doesn't need any money either.
0:43.7	So a topic that comes up a lot in discussion of the future is what the economy might look like and how money might change in the future, or if it has any role at all.
0:49.1	A look at a future without money is probably one of our most requested topics from
0:53.1	both advocates and detractors
0:54.7	of the idea, so I thought we would try to address all of that today and not ask ourselves
0:59.5	if a society without money is good or not, or if it's just possible or not, but how
1:04.8	it might come about and function.
1:07.4	As we do in our alien civilization series, where we take a hypothetical type of civilization
1:12.2	and ask if a scenario makes sense or how it might exist.
1:16.0	Needless to say, this is a touchy topic and I'll do my best to present it neutrally.
1:21.2	Where money is concerned, the reason people hope it might cease to exist is usually the easiest
1:26.0	part.
1:27.0	A lot of folks feel money is bad in and of itself, or at least that's a poor choice of
1:32.2	a life goal or becomes a life goal of far too many people.
1:36.0	Of course they say money is the root of all evil, except they actually do not say that.
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