Money, a waste of energy

Humans use money every day and very few ever give it another thought. Where does money come from, what is its origin. Even fewer would consider life possible without it.

Money has many characteristics. It is dividable, portable, it can be easily stored in vast amounts especially in its electronic form. It is also artificial, dangerous, unnecessary and a huge waste of time and energy.

There are many activities associated with receiving or providing goods and services.

For example, if you buy items from a food store, stock levels must be kept, people must work to produce these items. There is a vast and complex chain of events that must occurs to place an item of value on a shelf. Every step of the way requires effort from real living beings or machines created and maintained by real living beings. 

The management of money imposes additional human efforts to bring something of value to a state of accessibility and usability. If used, money needs to be counted, managed and distributed but it itself cannot be consumed. Rhetorically, money is only deemed useful if we nominate it to be the dictator of our every step.

Wouldn't it be simpler if to do your shopping you would go to a distribution outlet went to the shelves and grabbed what you needed and just walked out without waiting in queue to then go through a checkout and scan every single item to then perform some act of payment ritual.

Technology is at a stage where we can do away with money completely that means we can replace registers and checkouts with shelves that can weight things and that are networked to the shops stock control system. The stock control system takes care of reordering when stocks get low and keep stats all which feedback into regional and global systems to regulate supply per actual demand. 

In the absence of money clouding everybody's better judgement and cluttering our thoughts with profit margins and financial worries, shopping groups can concentrate on innovation and provide things like web pages for customers to add items they’d wish to see in their local shop. 

When the world ceases to waste time and energy on money matters a whole new world of simplicity, transparency and convenience is within reach.