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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 93203, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Money is the symbol of all virtues</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It says:</p><p><b>Protelarians of the world unite.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>(what else could it say?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have the Ruble.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>the communists thought that they could get along without money.&nbsp; Hah!&nbsp; They needed it for more than economic reasons. They needed if for epistemologic reasons. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yet in many ways communist ideas permeate. Consider Star Trek.&nbsp;&nbsp; only the Ferengi seem to enjoy money. Star Fleet and the Federation live without it. In fact, in one episode, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard tells a man from our time that in the future, people are more concerned with improving themselves than they are with the accumulation of things. This attitude, from a man in a uniform who commands some people and obeys the orders of others, begs a few questions.&nbsp; In the absence of money, how does the Federation know whether to open a mining colony or build ships? How does anyone know what to do? </p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is not science fiction: it is the very problem faced by the Bolsheviks.&nbsp; They were forced to use money by the same laws of the universe that demanded that they acknowledge gravity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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