Why do people even need money to achieve scientific feats like going to Mars or curing cancer? It's not like money magically makes a Rocket appearance, we obviously have the ability to make anything we want and have more than enough resources and technology to do it. The Egyptians didn't need 100 trillion dollars to build the pyramids they just did it, the Chinese were able to build the wall without worrying about money, they just did it.
How do you think a rocket gets made, OP?
Because of the way in which our society is structured, money has become the defacto way of allocating capital. The US government has the power to do whatever they want, however they need to either collect taxes or issue debt to pay for their projects, because restructuring society or changing our dependence on money as a capital allocation tool would result in an upheaval of the social order and chaos, precisely the sort of thing that is an antithesis to the governments.. reason for existence.
>>16387064This is a repost. You already got your answer the last time you posted this. What do you think you're accomplishing here?
>>16387064Your examples used slave labor for construction. Money is just a more advanced form of slave labor that is palatable enough to everyone except the hardcore commies.
>>16387064Are you volunteering to be a slave?
>>16387114Are you managing a budget anon?Perhaps an interesting one who would made slavery impossible if you just pay anyobe involved?
we live in a world now where humans only care about themselves only so we just don't bother with any group project that will take 10+ years of hard work to achieve.
>>16387065With materials like steel and human labor
>>16387073Triggering retards such as yourself
>>16387064Exactly, it's like why does everyone hate communism when that's what we're all striving for. Everyone's looking for new ways that they can make AI make money for them or something so they don't have to work, it's like no one wants to work and wants to find ways to not work and have money for whatever they want and in theory, if every person in the world accomplished that then that would in fact be a communist society.
>>16387318Then why do they collect so much useless plastic of silly animal cartoon characters and the like?
>>16387318that's not true, new skyscrapers go up all the time, massive cruise ships are constructed, larger than life bridges across massive expanses are built. We still do incredible things. It's just often not out of the goodness of our heart or some spiritual calling(and it never has been like that for the average worker). When there's some need for it and funding things get done. This has lead perhaps to a more sterile world where grand art projects and architecture play second fiddle to utilitarianism, however that is the nature of the industrialized world. Market forces reward projects for which there is great demand for and demand comes primarily from the middle class who hold the spending power, and the votes.
