What is the worst none violent thing thing Humankind has created?

AMKC

For me it is money and finacial services.

Just imagine how better the world would be if it did not exist.
No one poor no one rich.
Equal health for all.
Equal food for all.

Houses and cars would be given as to what is required of the individual or individuals.
So if your single a 1 bed and a small car or a transport ticket if you are a couple with family an MPV and a 4 bed house if your just a married couple the same and fir unmarried couples or does dating a 3 bed and a medium sized saloon car. There would be plenty of incentives to move up the scale but no banks or shops to be robbed so no properties and less crime on the streets.

lc180

Vegan cheese

KungPao

Social housing. Buy your own house like the rest of us.

tupenny

Religion

detones

Facebook

Duckworth_Luas

AMKC wrote: »

For me it is money and finacial services.

Just imagine how better the world would be if it did not exist.
No one poor no one rich.

tupenny

sugarman wrote: »

...they said non violent.

Good point

igCorcaigh

KungPao wrote: »

Social housing. Buy your own house like the rest of us.

Property is theft. And therefore inherently violent.

Capt'n Midnight

Scarcity. There is enough to go around.

igCorcaigh

AMKC wrote: »

For me it is money and finacial services.

Just imagine how better the world would be if it did not exist.
No one poor no one rich.
Equal health for all.
Equal food for all.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

murpho999

AMKC wrote: »

For me it is money and finacial services.

Just imagine how better the world would be if it did not exist.
No one poor no one rich.
Equal health for all.
Equal food for all.

Houses and cars would be given as to what is required of the individual or individuals.
So if your single a 1 bed and a small car or a transport ticket if you are a couple with family an MPV and a 4 bed house if your just a married couple the same and fir unmarried couples or does dating a 3 bed and a medium sized saloon car. There would be plenty of incentives to move up the scale but no banks or shops to be robbed so no properties and less crime on the streets.

You seem to be talking about a utopian communism.

If money and financial service didn't exist then it would be replaced by other systems such as bartering.

You talk about giving people health and houses etc but who would bulild these houses or train the doctors?

I woud deem guns, bombs and concentration camp gas chambers more violent creations than money or financial services.

eggy81

AMKC wrote: »

For me it is money and finacial services.

Just imagine how better the world would be if it did not exist.
No one poor no one rich.
Equal health for all.
Equal food for all.

Houses and cars would be given as to what is required of the individual or individuals.
So if your single a 1 bed and a small car or a transport ticket if you are a couple with family an MPV and a 4 bed house if your just a married couple the same and fir unmarried couples or does dating a 3 bed and a medium sized saloon car. There would be plenty of incentives to move up the scale but no banks or shops to be robbed so no properties and less crime on the streets.

Would we ever have advanced technology wise without trading/money. What would drive progression?

igCorcaigh

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Scarcity. There is enough to go around.

Scarcity surely is an imagined thing, yet necessarily for the money system, apparently, but abused by the people at the top.

work

Non renewable fossil fuel use and its by products like plastic

Junkyard Tom

Koka Noodles

Your Face

AMKC wrote: »

For me it is money and finacial services.

Just imagine how better the world would be if it did not exist.
No one poor no one rich.
Equal health for all.
Equal food for all.

Houses and cars would be given as to what is required of the individual or individuals.
So if your single a 1 bed and a small car or a transport ticket if you are a couple with family an MPV and a 4 bed house if your just a married couple the same and fir unmarried couples or does dating a 3 bed and a medium sized saloon car. There would be plenty of incentives to move up the scale but no banks or shops to be robbed so no properties and less crime on the streets.

What you're describing is akin to Communism.

Its been tried a few times and was never successful nor non-violent.

Strumms

AMKC wrote: »

For me it is money and finacial services.

Just imagine how better the world would be if it did not exist.
No one poor no one rich.
Equal health for all.
Equal food for all.

Houses and cars would be given as to what is required of the individual or individuals.
So if your single a 1 bed and a small car or a transport ticket if you are a couple with family an MPV and a 4 bed house if your just a married couple the same and fir unmarried couples or does dating a 3 bed and a medium sized saloon car. There would be plenty of incentives to move up the scale but no banks or shops to be robbed so no properties and less crime on the streets.

If you pay a guy working in Arnotts , the same as you pay a doctor... the doctor or potential doctor is going to say... “ why am I going to break my hole, studying night and day for X years, accepting the responsibility of people’s lives and wellbeing when I can not bother with any of that work, study and hardship, earn the same... selling suits in Arnotts... home at 7 every night, no overtime needed, little to no stress... happy days...

People need to be proportionately to the type of job they do, level of responsibility, danger, qualifications needed, experience, ability...

Montage of Feck

Disposable products

Cerveza

Man child video games.

darlett

AMKC wrote: »

For me it is money and finacial services.

Just imagine how better the world would be if it did not exist.
No one poor no one rich.
Equal health for all.
Equal food for all.

Houses and cars would be given as to what is required of the individual or individuals.
So if your single a 1 bed and a small car or a transport ticket if you are a couple with family an MPV and a 4 bed house if your just a married couple the same and fir unmarried couples or does dating a 3 bed and a medium sized saloon car. There would be plenty of incentives to move up the scale but no banks or shops to be robbed so no properties and less crime on the streets.

There would be no cars, no roads and all the rest. No great medicine or education or the like. In the days of battering people lived equally is it? The kings and the paupers. No. There was inequality. There was crime, and yes, all the bad ones, long before there was money, and if money disappeared crime would survive until it was just it and the cockroaches walking the earth.

dotsman

AMKC wrote: »

For me it is money and finacial services.

Just imagine how better the world would be if it did not exist.

Stay off the drugs OP. Money is one of the bedrocks under which we moved from being cave-dwellers (little more advanced than our animal ancestors) to form civilisations. Without it, we would still be living like that. So you can forget your "equal health" and "equal food". The reality would be life expectancy of 30 and constant hunger and deprivation where practically every day is a struggle just to survive. Oh, and "survival of the fittest" would reign supreme, so you can take your commie notions of everyone "being equal" and feck right off

As for what is the worst thing we created? Twitter (and equivalent social media). It promotes the worst in humanity and accelerates idiocy.

darlett

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Disposable products

Our pollution is just incredible. Walking along the roads, certainly most roads; bags, cans, wrappers...who does it all? Who has the time to pollute ffffing everywhere. Team work makes the dream work.

Leg End Reject

Sex and love.

Both will bend, twist and warp perception until you no longer recognise yourself.


Until eventually reality bites ...

Capt'n Midnight

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Scarcity surely is an imagined thing, yet necessarily for the money system, apparently, but abused by the people at the top.

How did that quote go - there has never been a famine in a functioning democracy.

Artificial scarcity is the root of many evils.

Goldengirl

Strumms wrote: »

If you pay a guy working in Arnotts , the same as you pay a doctor... the doctor or potential doctor is going to say... “ why am I going to break my hole, studying night and day for X years, accepting the responsibility of people’s lives and wellbeing when I can not bother with any of that work, study and hardship, earn the same... selling suits in Arnotts... home at 7 every night, no overtime needed, little to no stress... happy days....

Makes you wonder why anyone ever goes into nursing then

Back to the thread.q ...nuclear power .

Capt'n Midnight

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Scarcity surely is an imagined thing, yet necessarily for the money system, apparently, but abused by the people at the top.

How is it necessary ??

Supply and demand.

Make something attractive and people will choose to part with their money.

Or make it essential for survival and they have no choice.

Holy Duck

Finding Joy

Capt'n Midnight

Goldengirl wrote: »

Back to the thread.q ...nuclear power .

OK for niche applications where cost isn't an issue.

Otherwise it's too uneconomic to do it properly.

Goldengirl

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

OK for niche applications where cost isn't an issue.

Otherwise it's too uneconomic to do it properly.

Worst form of pollution for questionable benefit .

BorneTobyWilde

The Combustion Engine. The very first cars were electric.... if only they stuck with it... just how advanced would they be now.

harvester of sorrow

Social media and smartphones.
The plague of the 21st century

Mrs Brown's Boys

jmlad2020

harvester of sorrow wrote: »

Social media and smartphones.
The plague of the 21st century

The internet has led to them. Maybe the Internet?

Mike Murdock

Dance Music/Rave Music/EDM.

99nsr125

Radical feminism

What a way to destroy society because of an ideology instead of the intellect where actual eglatarism/feminism begun

Crazy Frog

.anon.

KungPao wrote: »

Social housing. Buy your own house like the rest of us.

Thankfully, unpleasant opinions like that are extremely rare (outside of this absolute hell-site anyway).

Snickers Man

Twitter

Tesla tower

Nuclear waste

Gorteen

Plastic

whisky_galore

darlett wrote: »

Our pollution is just incredible. Walking along the roads, certainly most roads; bags, cans, wrappers...who does it all? Who has the time to pollute ffffing everywhere. Team work makes the dream work.

Walking along my road...an empty bottle of Baileys.

Who the actual fcuk carries around a bottle of Baileys in their car?

Patches oHoulihan

AMKC wrote: »

For me it is money and finacial services.

Just imagine how better the world would be if it did not exist.
No one poor no one rich.
Equal health for all.
Equal food for all.

Houses and cars would be given as to what is required of the individual or individuals.
So if your single a 1 bed and a small car or a transport ticket if you are a couple with family an MPV and a 4 bed house if your just a married couple the same and fir unmarried couples or does dating a 3 bed and a medium sized saloon car. There would be plenty of incentives to move up the scale but no banks or shops to be robbed so no properties and less crime on the streets.

Social media.
Facebook and Twitter are a pox upon humanity.

whisky_galore

Country and Irish music.

Thelonious Monk

Your Face wrote: »

What you're describing is akin to Communism.

Its been tried a few times and was never successful nor non-violent.

Yes but what we're doing now isn't working either. Our standards of living are high but we're consuming and polluting at rates that can only really lead to war and famine and total ecological destruction sooner or later.

tringle

Facebook

Single use plastic

Celebrity (fame for doing something is fine but not celebrity just for the sake of it, eg kardashians)

Dictatorship

Mushrooms, though we didn't create them but we should ban them as a food

Wanderer78

AMKC wrote:

Houses and cars would be given as to what is required of the individual or individuals. So if your single a 1 bed and a small car or a transport ticket if you are a couple with family an MPV and a 4 bed house if your just a married couple the same and fir unmarried couples or does dating a 3 bed and a medium sized saloon car. There would be plenty of incentives to move up the scale but no banks or shops to be robbed so no properties and less crime on the streets.

Utopic! we d probably use stones instead of money, and we d eventually start throwing them at each, we 're just destined to fcuk each other over

Ishmael

Cigarettes

User pays money to keep themselves in a sustained level of stress at the idea of not having them. In the meantime they slowly destroy their health over time.

Such an absolute waste of life for no good reason.

Wanderer78

Ishmael wrote:

Such an absolute waste of life for no good reason.

Logic should never be used to try explain or understand addiction

893bet

Reality TV.

Ironically it’s so far from reality 20 years later that it is more scripted than fair city.

McGinniesta

Stupidity and Ignorance.

Not a creation as such but it's probably the root of most of our problems.

You'd need a second internet to list the examples.

Wanderer78

893bet wrote:

Ironically it’s so far from reality 20 years later that it is more scripted than fair city.

Some of it truly is dreadful, some of it is good though