User blog comment:Centrist16/SOMETHING EVERYONE MUST KNOW/@comment-1267731-20150809115222/@comment-4824231-20150815131008

People seem to forget that the 'economy' and 'money' are a construct of society, that can be abolished and replaced by a new social construct. Money itself is a figment of our collective imagination where we attach value to certain things based on their scarcity or what society tells us to. It doesn't have to be like this at all, in fact it would be much better for the planet and ultimately human beings in my view if we established a gift economy based on unconditional gift giving and universal provision of resources as scarcity has been circumvented by the abolition of the market itself, just look at Wikipedia, a free universal platform for the distribution of knowledge which has meant that there can never be an established information market. This can happen to the mainstream economy too. Many societies have got along with this system in the past, many Native American civilisations and the very advanced Incan civilisation.