No acquisition of wealth

[Deified]

Have you read The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov? In that book they have a society that functions without currency, but everyone is not entirely equal. Government officials, respected scientists etc. have nicer apartments and private bathrooms and so on. Resources are all provided by the government and everyone works according to their abilities/desires, if they don't work they get lowered in social status. This is much more effective in this book because virtually no one lives outside the walls of the major cities. Everyone lives, eats and works in close proximity to one another making the enforcement much more effective.

 

Oh, yea and they have robots who do a lot of work.

[TimeTraveler]

Have you read The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov? In that book they have a society that functions without currency' date=' but everyone is not entirely equal. Government officials, respected scientists etc. have nicer apartments and private bathrooms and so on. Resources are all provided by the government and everyone works according to their abilities/desires, if they don't work they get lowered in social status. This is much more effective in this book because virtually no one lives outside the walls of the major cities. Everyone lives, eats and works in close proximity to one another making the enforcement much more effective.

 

Oh, yea and they have robots who do a lot of work.[/quote']

 

Nope I have not read it, but it sounds like what I am looking for. I will have to grab it on my next trip to the library. Thanks a bunch!

[psi20]

I'd imagine several different societies with money not existing. It also depends on the number of people that exist on the planet. I'm going to think of a society with 7 billion people on Earth.

 

One is where people are all isolated into clans and local alliances with neighbors and family, millions of languages exist, thousands of religions, the average person is a self-sufficient farmer, people don't travel out of a 20-kilometer radius, 5 billion people die in the first 10 years (starvation and disease mostly coupled with war), 10 billion people are born in the first 10 years (no more tv's, computers, etc. what else do you do for fun), no trade, a grumpy group of people we are; within a million years, some people will be huge and the adults will be 8 feet tall due to surplus of food and resources, others will be 4 feet tall due to small resources.

 

*Sorry for the huge run-on, but I hope you caught the ideas rather than the grammatical errors.

 

Another society is a group of unified people who are socialists, there is no government, there's a universal belief that people should be altruistic and help each other, the universe is cyclic, meaning it repeats, fate exists, planes are built for free, cars are built for free, people give each other food when there's surplus which there would be due to the increase in technology from the international interaction of peoples across continents and oceans, computers would exist, 3 billion people die in the first 10 years due to disease starvation war, 10 billion people are born (surplus of food, people are close, travel around the world exists, you meet new people)

 

this seems to be a perfect place, however it comes with a twist

 

the travel causes an extinction in a group of people who aren't immune to common diseases that the tourists have, derranged people would figure out the best way to kill isn't with guns, but with contagions, computer viruses would spread if they couldn't be stopped, people become lazy because they know they would be taken care of, warfare would be periodic with more casualties than the first scenario.

 

In this society, the first 100 years are successful, the next 100 are in decline, the next 500 are chaotic, the next are successful, etc. fueling the belief that the universe is cyclic and history repeats.

[RICHARDBATTY]

He asked for something realistic.

Why is this not realistic.

[psi20]

Yeah, I think it'd be realistic if there was a civilzation with a different philosophy, code of ethics, etc. as our own. We, the U.S., are like individualistic capitalists for the most part. Obviously we're not going to be saying, "Hey, I'm going to give you this new t.v. I made for free."

 

However, a society under other circumstances and beliefs would. Maybe a society where people consider everyone else a family member because we give things for free to our family members.

[RICHARDBATTY]

Yeah' date=' I think it'd be realistic if there was a civilzation with a different philosophy, code of ethics, etc. as our own. We, the U.S., are like individualistic capitalists for the most part. Obviously we're not going to be saying, "Hey, I'm going to give you this new t.v. I made for free."

 

However, a society under other circumstances and beliefs would. Maybe a society where people consider everyone else a family member because we give things for free to our family members.[/quote'] Thanks. Its just the way it is now but instead of getting money you get anything you need/want. At the moment I repair and service xray equipment and a friend is a bin man. We might still do the same job as our contribution to society but get no cash just produce. Some body might farm and some one else might work in a tv factory. I get a tv they helped make my friend empties their bin I keep the xray kit in working order in case they need it etc etc etc.