UNO or so would make 1 price for everything. Rice? 1€/kg! A Playstation? 1€/kg! Get your hair cut? 1€/kg! A house? 1€/kg!
I need this for my office door
Hiiiii! I’m Monique, from HR. Would you happen to have a moment for me?
Hi Monique, would you happen to look at the sign?
That’s another thing I’d like to discuss with you :)
What kind of debating culture is this? It’s a showerthought
This does qualify as a thought I guess …
Going to buy me some helium and hydrogen and make a fortune!
Buy Hydrogen and Oxygen, then resell it as water. How you get there is up to you.
Worked on the shuttle engine program, so that’s would be my preferred approach.
Could do it by absolute value, so things that rise also cost more? /s
Stonks!
Related: Watch “Futurman” season 2 to see what a society will look like if every single thing costs exactly $1. It’s pretty stupid but funny.
Items would just be sold with enough lead weights stuck on to make the total weight proportional to the market value.
You think the packaging is excessive now, just wait!
A slightly less dumb idea would be to tax food by calorie content. In ages of famine, that tends to be the main factor in its cost, after all, and when obesity is rampant, it could make people more aware of their diet. Artificial sweeteners and other low-energy alternatives would become way more viable. Of course, this is impractical as it would inadvertently cause massive misrepresentation of calorie count (even if the <5 cal/serving ≈ 0 cal loophole is closed).
USSR bartered machinery for bananas or sugar with Vietnam and Cuba because they lacked hard currency. I heard rumors that the rate was 1:1 by weight but I haven’t been able to find evidence. It’s probably just a widespread myth making fun of how dumb the USSR’s policies were and the banana scarcity.
Why?
To make it fair. Gold would be worthless. Or food expensive as fuck, but then all palaces would burn
Wouldn’t it be fairer to just drop capitalism and have a society not based on wealth?
I can see a few cases immediately where your system would remain unfair or unviable.
Wouldn’t it be fairer to just drop capitalism and have a society not based on wealth?
I thought that would be a side effect
How about drop capitalism so we can refocus what wealth is.
Currently if you obtain land. Destroy the natural resources that can never be replaced to sell those resources to make enshitificated junk. You supposedly “created wealth”
Profit = loss
#CrazyIdeas
I prefer the labor-time
Labor-time? How much do you weigh? 1€ per kg per hour!
Muricans gonna be wealthy as fuck
We would be if we knew what the fuck a kg was.
It’s how many grandmas you can kill in the alotted time.
Kill-a-Grans per hour.
Again?? 😡
