What if everything was free?

Imagine if there was no money and everything was free, how would life be like?

No one would be hungry because everyone can get food for free and so, there would be no children dying from hunger in Africa and all around the world.

There would be no poor people because wealth will not be measured based on money anymore. Everyone will be able to get what they need and want without any problem.

There will be far less anxiety and stress about income and whether we will be able to provide for our families or not. There would be far less diseases too because of less stress. It is known that the increase of number of diseases in our time is due to our increased stress.

Since no one will be worried about where their income is coming from, everyone will be doing what they truly love and in the process they may help, benefit, and entertain other people and so, no one will be worried about getting a wrong job that’s not suitable for them just for the good pay which leads to decreased competitiveness and more compassion towards each other.

There will be no one who feels the need to lie to you and brain wash you with fancy words to buy their product because they need to make the sale otherwise, they may not get their paycheck.

Clean green energy will be available for everyone and so there will be no more pollution, global warming, and catastrophic climate change.

However, bad things might also happen such as:

People might get greedy and whoever comes first takes more than what they need and leave nothing to other people leading to another kind of poverty.

Guns and weapons may be obtained and manufactured freely without limits BUT, maybe we should limit it to military and police personnel only. However, free exchange of guns and weapons and the exchange of the material to manufacture them among countries may make one country attack another just because it has the weapons and the power to.

Some of the less desired but necessary work might not get done like washing the dishes in a restaurant, collecting garbage…etc. But then I think there might be people who will actually like these kind of jobs or maybe we will do it ourselves and be responsible for it.

People may become more lazy and less productive and so we may not advance as rapid as we are doing today BUT still, I believe that everyone is created with a certain passion or many passions to go after in which they will serve the world with, so even if we become lazy, it won’t last much because the freedom and the relaxed mind we obtained will allow us to be creative like never before.

In the end, everything may be used in a good way that benefits all and in bad way that destroys all. I wonder if we truly cancel money and make everything free, will we be wise enough to use it in a good way or will we abuse it and find ways in which we use it to make things worse?

What else do you think will happen if we do this? Whether it’s a bad thing or a good thing?