[J Dylan]

Now, bear with me, because I know that the title of this thread probably made your stoned ass go "Food credits? Hahahahahahaha"
I however am, in actuality, going to propose an interesting idea that i discussed with a few friends over a session the other day.

So, I was thinking about how absolutely horrifying it is that life has basically come to revolve around money. Everything starts with money. Clothes, computers, pipes, bongs, rolling papers... none of it would exist without money because... well... money is the single motivation for everyone in the world to get, and hold a job. Without people motivated to work, there would basically be nothing to buy.

My idea is:
Food credits.

Replace money, with food credits. A form of payment (as opposed to money) to workers for their hours and jobs.

You work for food credits, and you get paid, in food credits.

These credits are only able to be used for one purpose: to purchase food, which you NEED to survive. Just like money.

Money itself is plentiful... which you use to spend on all the luxuries of life. All the things that aren't in a grocery store or a restaurant. Everybody has tons and tons of money because obviously money is no longer the motivating factor for employment.

The loopholes that I can think of:
1.) Illegal drugs / black market would fall. (Unless you could trade food credits for black-market products)
2.) The system would have to be adjusted so that workers supporting children on their wages get paid extra food credits (a certain amount of extra food credits per child supported)
3.) The system would also have to be adjusted so that low-wage workers still make enough food credits to support themselves in terms of having enough food to not be uncomfortably hungry too much of the time.

Pretty far-fetched idea. Basically where this derived from was my thinking about how it would be possible to eliminate the world's dependence on money.
A difficult problem to solve, because it seems there always has to be a dependence on something.

Help me modify my ideas and point out any more flaws that I haven't really thought of yet. If you see what i'm going for, maybe you can even come up with your own way to solve the problem.

It's really quite mind-boggling, actually.