What If Everything In This World Is Free?

What if everything in this world is free? What if money doesn't exist, how will the world be like? Would it be a better place for all of us? Or would all of us be so superbly lazy?

To start, let's start with something basic and vital, food.

What if all food are free, that you can just go into a restaurant or canteen to request for any food you want to eat? Note that you would be requesting but not ordering, because hey, you are not paying for your food. If it's free, and people can't make money out of it, who do you think would cook? People who love to cook. Then you get all the best-est food in the world paying nothing for it. Since food is free anyway, basic survival needs of all mankind are guaranteed, you won't have crap chef cooking crap food conning crap customers to make a crap buck anymore.

But to look further, because now that the basic survival of mankind is guaranteed, it affects the society in an unimaginable way. First robberies, burglaries would be reduced tremendously. If you have no problem eating, even if you have no money, sleeping in a sleeping bag in the park or something isn't really that bad. Many people do desperate things during desperate situations, and feeding everyone free would eliminate them. Seriously if one person is going to die starving, does he even care for your wellfare? If police shoots him dead, better for him. It ends his endless struggle for food.

However, let's us just bring back the focus a little bit. If food is to be free, then the food supplies have to be free too right? How are the farmers, fishermen etc going to survive? Well farmers can basically work for free if they want to, but fishing involves some heavy machineries that cost a lot of money! Now it is not so much about mechanics not working for free, but heavy machineries require industrial grade equipments, which require other industrial grade equipments to produce. It's a huge chain of industrial age products there.

Now because if food is free, and that everyone does not have to worry about their own survival, everyone would only do what he/she loves to do, which in turn would make him/her the best in the field. So you will get the finest mechanics to make the ships, equipments and other machineries for you... for free. Still, industrial grade equipments don't come cheap. The process is complicated and usually are only viable for mass production, or at least to sell to companies with a lot of money. How can we bypass this to make everything free?

First, perhaps the mechanics can stick with making smaller boats, or refining some carpentry tactics for boat building. Second, I suppose if you want to eat meat or fish, it is possible to go grab them yourself? Fish yourself, or kill a pig yourself. There would be dedicated pig farm or fish pond for people to get their meat free of charge! And it doesn't matter to them because they either love doing it, or have nothing better to do since they don't have to worry about food now. Or perhaps, the final possible solution is that, since companies really don't exist for profits anymore, they wouldn't mind spending sometime designing and developing ships free of charge for people that truly wants them. The fishermen, the sailors, the adventurers, the every other ding dong!

But if everything is free, wouldn't all of us want to hog on everything we can lay our hands on? You asked. Free laptop, free iPhone, free helicopter... FUAH! But here is the thing, when you know that they are always free, and are always available there, you wouldn't quite bother to go all the way out and hog on things that you don't truly need right? Hell even if I give you a free helicopter, you will be thinking where the fuck do I park this thing? Or how the hell do I maintain this thing? You might just want to fly the helicopter once in a while and don't want to care about the problems of maintaining one, maybe you will just park your helicopters with the trusted free mechanics in the the air field. You probably wouldn't even care about other people using it or breaking it because hey, it's free. And if someone got the latest model of helicopters, they would park it at the air field too, and wouldn't care who flies it, I bet you would be so willing to share your helicopters now with the others.

Anyway, for items like free mobile phone, free laptop etc... Well if you are using it all the time then by all means go use it. There isn't really a need to share things because they are free. But when you do not want to use them anymore, maybe new models come out or something, surely you will be more than happy to give them away for free again right? Now some hobbyists could perhaps develop something special from all these old technologies. Did you know that Google's massive success lies mainly in its innovative capabilities to run on cheap computers parallelly? Whatever that they are doing since decade ago, is now the IN thing. Cloud computing is the way to go baby! So yea, someone out there could develop something super awesome out of old technologies, it will then become the latest technologies once again!

But what about houses and land and everything? Well sure people will build it for you for free, but humans are ultimately humans. If you want to build a whole mansion, you better have the convincing power to convince enough people that you need that much space and that they should do it for you. Too huge and people would think that it's a waste of their time doing things for you because you are just plain greedy. And no people don't care about what you use to bribe them since everything is free! There is nothing that they cannot get without your help! Even lands are free and you are free to build your house everywhere you want!

You may be thinking, if lands are free also, wouldn't people just fence up a huge area and call it their own? Maybe some will. But what's the point of living in such isolations? Wouldn't it be nice for people to live closer to each other? Plus it might be a maintenance nightmare if you have too huge of a yard. Think of all the grass and trees and animals roaming in your garden? Snakes in particular ewww. I wouldn't mind a nice cozy small house with everything that I ever need, because I know that if I ever wanted a bigger house, I can get it anytime... and it's again... FREE.

How about cars? If people can get cars for free, wouldn't everybody go for Ferraris? Well if that's the case just let there be only Ferraris la! Who cares about sedan or mpv when everybody can drive a Ferrari for free right? Then all these car enthusiasts would band together to create the best-est car every other day... for free! Because they love to do it and because they don't need any money.

How about government then? No money no tax no government? Why need a government when everybody can get everything for free? Do you think people would go around robbing people and murdering people? Even prostitutes would be free just because they enjoy having sex with strangers (at least from what I see on Adultfriendfinders.com, there are already a hell lot of them)! Burglaries, robberies, rapings would be reduced to a non-existant number. Murders well... I don't see why people would have clashes and end up killing people when they can have everything for free. I mean, there would be no ego clashes at least because everybody can have a Ferrari if they want to. Everybody would be thrilled working on what they are passionate about on a daily basis, they wouldn't even be upset enough to drink beer and act stupid afterwards. And since government at the present day is very much about maintaining the economy of the country, who cares about economy nothing costs anything anymore? There is practically no more economy!

You ask, surely for things like basic maintenance of the environment and rubbish collections etc would still require people to execute? You can have healthcare etc all for free, but who are going to be dumb enough to be willingly to collect rubbish for you for free?! And I reply, since that now everything is free... The only currency would be honours. People who would collect garbage for free would be perceived as honourable and be thought highly by their society. Everybody can use a little bit of praises and reputation eh? Plus it is just similar with current charities, to be doing a community service to give back and benefits the community that they are living in. So again, why need the government again?

My point of bring this all up is that... We could very much live in a utopia tomorrow if we all decide to in this very moment. It is very possible for everything to be free. We can then all live in a worriless life tomorrow onwards. Okay maybe not immediately, but if I am the leader of a nation, first thing I would do is to offer free meals to everybody! That would set off a chain reaction of free stuff through the nation and it would be awesome. There will then be free fish pond, free farms... and eventually free phones, free laptops as more people gain free time and spend their time developing what they love to do... And eventually free heavy machineries would be offered. Then the last obstacles of a free world will be eliminated, and an advanced society will thus take shape.

Shall we make everything free?