• blarghly@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    pretty sure we can find something better for batteries than lithium

    Trust me, bro

    would you need someone scanning groceries if there was no money?

    Because this is the most efficient way of keeping track of how many goods leave your moneyless store, and ensuring assholes aren’t just taking everything for themselves and hoarding it. Tracking how many goods leave the store at any given time allows you to order an appropriate amount to keep things in stock so that people who need things don’t go without, and is especially important for perishable goods like fresh produce.

    What’s left can be rotated out or done by lottery,

    People have different skill sets and specialties. Many jobs take years of training and practice to reach an acceptable level. Also, you just invented state-sanctioned slavery/a non-military draft. What do you do with someone who refuses to perform their lottery-assigned job?

    and those doing the undesirable labor get to have more luxury items or whatever.

    That’s literally the system we have now, but more authoritarian, since someone has to decide what is a “luxury good” and how much undesirable work is required to attain a given level of luxury.

    people have been doing it for centuries.

    Citation needed. Concerns: authoritarianism; scaling; maintenance of the modern standard of living

    • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      I didn’t cite sources because the literal decades and decades of refutations to your arguments already exist.

      But I will leave you with this: Why do libraries work?

      • blarghly@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        If there are so many refutations, then it should be trivial to point me to one. Assume I am an idiot who doesn’t know how a search engine works - I very well might be. Would you be able to point me to one of these innumerable refutations that would disprove me - otherwise, how am I to learn?

        Why do libraries work?

        I’m not sure what you mean here. If you explain your point of view, I can explain mine. But I will point out that libraries are not a full, functioning society - just part of one.