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Money Has Always Been A Particular Problem For Revolutionaries And Anti-capitalists. What Will Money Look Like 'after The Revolution'? How Will It Function? Will It Exist At All? It's Hard To Answer The Question If You Don't Know What Money Actually Is. Proposing To Eliminate It Entirely Seems Utopian And Naive.

The Question We Should Be Asking Is Not Why People Are Sometimes Cruel, Or Even Why A Few People Are Usually Cruel (all Evidence Suggests True Sadists Are An Extremely Small Proportion Of The Population Overall), But How We Have Come To Create Institutions That Encourage Such Behavior And That Suggest Cruel People Are In Some Ways Admirable-or At Least As Deserving Of Sympathy As Those They Push Around.

Even In The Most Market-obsessed Society, We're Still Spending Half Of Our Time On Something Other Than Just Getting Cash.

I Came To The Conclusion That Most People In America Would Really Like To Be Able To Get A Job Where They Think They're Doing Something Noble And Nice And Good And It Isn't Just For The Money. But The Reason They Hate What They Call The Cultural Elite Is That They See It As A Class That's Grabbed All The Jobs Where You Can Get Paid To Do Something That Isn't Just For The Money - If It's Art, If It's Charity, If It's Intellectual, If It's Political, Whatever It Might Be.

The Notion That A Society Could Be Regulated Entirely By Market Forces Is A Utopian Fantasy: An Impossible Dream Generated By Imagining What The World Would Be Like If Everyone's Behavior Was Utterly Consistent With Some Abstract Moral Ideal-in This Case, Economic Theories That Assume All Human Action Is Based On Calculating, Systematic, (but Scrupulously Law-abiding), Greed.