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I created an open source barter facilitator application and I am wondering if it is the future of commerce (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 days ago by danielhanrahantng@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Hello my name is Daniel Hanrahan and I created a barter facilitator application and do you think it is the future of commerce: https://github.com/Daniel-Hanrahan-Tools-and-Games/Barter_Facilitator Sincerely, Daniel Hanrahan

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[–] axib@beehaw.org 8 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Do you have a demo video or something to watch? Or could you provide a bit more detail about the problem you're trying to solve, what a typical use case might be? I rarely clone a github repo and try running it. Not just because it takes time and I'm often browsing on my phone, but because I don't want to let potentially malicious code run on my computer.

I agree that money can seem like the cause of a lot of problems, but ultimately isn't it a pretty good intermediary for trade? Maybe skipping money entirely would be great in the event of some sort of global currency collapse, but even then, maybe we would just use bottle caps or something?

And even if someone can prove that money is indeed a bad thing, even if we abolished it and resorted to barter... wouldn't some people just hoard some other in-demand commodity and become powerful through that?

I feel like money isn't the root of all evil, it's just a representation of wealth and people hoarding wealth is probably the real issue.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

...money isn’t the root of all evil...

That's because it isn't...to explain, many people misquote a verse from the biblical texts.

1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains."

[–] axib@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

ah, interesting! I might have heard that this was misquoted before (and forgot), but I didn't know it was from the bible.

"... of all kinds of evil" is interesting too. To me this implies that loving money isn't necessarily always a problem, if it means say being frugal to save money/food to survive the winter or something, or saving for your children's future.

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