If a Deer Can Eat for Free, Why Can’t We? Is Money Really Necessary?
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 27/02/2020

I recently made a video suggesting that human society will naturally shift away from capitalism towards a moneyless society. In a world of post-scarcity, the concept of money will eventually become redundant. Of course, many proponents of capitalism replied to my video essentially saying that it will never happen. “It’s human nature!”; “Money’s been around for tens of thousands of years!”; “Everything costs something!”; “There’s no such thing as a free lunch!”, and so on. But I have one simple rebuttal to this: Does a deer pay for lunch? If not, why not? Obviously, the first part of the question is rhetorical. Of course a deer, or any animal, doesn’t pay for lunch (at least not in its natural environment). Perhaps you could argue that some animals have to work for their food, but when it comes to a deer (or rabbit, or llama, or any other plant-eater), they essentially just have to bend forward and eat. There’s almost no effort involved. If a deer doesn’t have to pay for lunch, why do we? This question highlights one important fact: Money is a human construct. It’s not natural (insofar that you classify human-created concepts and objects as not being natural). So why do we have to pay for lunch, but a deer doesn’t? Watch the video to find out!

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