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If you remove money and religion from the world, would all its problems disappear?

The Riddler

I have often thought that when you drill down into any issue anywhere in the world there is money and or religion at it’s core. Everything from homelessness, to war to the issues with the environment. So if we removed them and worked as a collaborative state, would all the problems disappear or would a whole set of new ones arise?

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  • Some countries seem to be relatively successful at creating fairer societies with less exploitation and greed in evidence. Scandinavia always seem to be ahead of everyone else in this regard. 

    Maybe not money but greed and the lust for more power are certainly behind a good many social ills, the UK and the US being prime examples of where things go wrong under a predatory capitalism. 

    As for religion, organised religion especially when combined with the power of the State, seem to create yet another means for oppression. Not sure I would conflate religion with spirituality though. 

    Read a good book recently by a Fabian Scheidler on this very topic, pretty well. My potted answervowes to The Spirit Level too, that recognises a direct link between all forms of inequality and social distress, though the fact that inequality and social ills should go together should scarcely be surprising. Scheidler was inspired in turn by Lewis Mumford, and Marx, the latter of whom while being an atheist was nevertheless held up as a guru possessing the One Great Truth, alas

  • in reply to Nexus11

    There's a huge problem with all of these 'brave new world' ideas.    They all assume everyone is equal in the first place and with equal good intentions.    Unfortunately, there will always be between 2-5% psychopaths and sociopaths in a population.     There will always be disabled people and there will always be thieves and criminals too and all these different groups will utterly corrupt any civilisation so the whole hippy-trippy love-fest will breakdown into a dog-eat-dog Thunderdome.     

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  • in reply to Nexus11

    There's a huge problem with all of these 'brave new world' ideas.    They all assume everyone is equal in the first place and with equal good intentions.    Unfortunately, there will always be between 2-5% psychopaths and sociopaths in a population.     There will always be disabled people and there will always be thieves and criminals too and all these different groups will utterly corrupt any civilisation so the whole hippy-trippy love-fest will breakdown into a dog-eat-dog Thunderdome.     

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