De-monetization of basic life requirements and beyond.

[_Miracle]

As for the de-monetization of basic life requirements--when we get to the point when actual labor is no longer required we'll be nearing the end of scarcity.

Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson <---one of the few relatively current authors who reference Adam Smith except that he get's him right.


Wish more people with "strong opinions" would read this book
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt



There is value in attending university beyond learning and degrees---you create a network, friends ect.

Udemy and Coursera offer online courses for free with the option to pay for course completion certificates.

[KingScorpio]

why dont you first try to establish this "demonetisation of basic life requirement in venezuela or other poor countries?

the truth is that no one that runs the infrastructure that provide those goods, will continue to work.

[DireWolfM14]

Actually I see some promising open source educational systems. I am going to wager a guess you are referring to state subsidized "free" education, not literal lesson plans available for use for all on the internet. Now as far as certifications go, I agree there needs to be some kind of standard setting authority to weed the incompetent people out. We should not however confuse free with government funded, and education with a certification or a degree. They are not always the same thing.

You're suspicions are correct, I was indeed using the word "demonetization" as a socialist might; code for "taxing the shit out of you giving you very little in return."

I agree there are so many ways to educate one's self available for free on the internet these days, it's really a marvelous time if you are able to take advantage of it.  Coding, astronomy, science, mathematics, language, all can be learned for free.

[Spendulus]

Actually I see some promising open source educational systems. I am going to wager a guess you are referring to state subsidized "free" education, not literal lesson plans available for use for all on the internet. Now as far as certifications go, I agree there needs to be some kind of standard setting authority to weed the incompetent people out. We should not however confuse free with government funded, and education with a certification or a degree. They are not always the same thing.

You're suspicions are correct, I was indeed using the word "demonetization" as a socialist might; code for "taxing the shit out of you giving you very little in return."

I agree there are so many ways to educate one's self available for free on the internet these days, it's really a marvelous time if you are able to take advantage of it.  Coding, astronomy, science, mathematics, language, all can be learned for free.

Demonitization has occurred hugely; if you take the right time spans. A person used to have to travel hundreds of miles walking or on horse to get to a library. There might have been a few street performers playing music, but the fancy music was only for the wealthy.

Even in the 1990s, if you wanted to look up patents, you had to go to a library with the repository.

All of Wikipedia can be put on a computer or card < 100 gb, and freely given out.

[TECSHARE]

Actually I see some promising open source educational systems. I am going to wager a guess you are referring to state subsidized "free" education, not literal lesson plans available for use for all on the internet. Now as far as certifications go, I agree there needs to be some kind of standard setting authority to weed the incompetent people out. We should not however confuse free with government funded, and education with a certification or a degree. They are not always the same thing.

You're suspicions are correct, I was indeed using the word "demonetization" as a socialist might; code for "taxing the shit out of you giving you very little in return."

I agree there are so many ways to educate one's self available for free on the internet these days, it's really a marvelous time if you are able to take advantage of it.  Coding, astronomy, science, mathematics, language, all can be learned for free.

Demonitization has occurred hugely; if you take the right time spans. A person used to have to travel hundreds of miles walking or on horse to get to a library. There might have been a few street performers playing music, but the fancy music was only for the wealthy.

Even in the 1990s, if you wanted to look up patents, you had to go to a library with the repository.

All of Wikipedia can be put on a computer or card < 100 gb, and freely given out.

That is actually a really good point. The quality of life has increased SO MUCH because of technological innovation brought about by free market competition. We have gone from struggling every day to do simple things like eat and travel, to making them so inexpensive, available, and taken for granted that the same effort needed to live now is demanded by some people to be completely free. Some times it amazes me how little people appreciate what they have. Unfortunately everyone is going to learn soon the hard way...