Would Aliens use money ?

I say no way. Money truly is the root of all evil. It causes war, famine, poverty, pollution, inefficiency, wastes natural resources, creates markets like drugs that create even more crime and horrendous human suffering, etc.

Any civilization capable of surviving long enough to reach space travel surely has conquered petty human issues. Id guess that money would be totally "alien" to another race of humanoids.

I agree. 100%. I think that the capalist money system is a scam used to fuel the materilistic drive of the global underlining corprate agenda. I'm trapped within this system. Hell. We all are. I think that the mineral "Au" or "Gold" which is "used" to back up the paper and metals was once valued for its properties of mostly common unknown nature by civilizations of "aliens". Some how it was ployed as a tool to control people through the invert of the cash system. This in case drives people to work for nothing and pay in with something.

The phrase "money is the root of all evil" is untrue. It is the humans behind the root of evil. To use the phrase is simply a scape goat. As for aliens, I dunno if they would use money, or even if they did would it be abstract or actual material.

Would aliens use money? Never even considered it in the slightest, not even an iota of a scintilla - even a anorexic blonde scintilla. Hmmm.

Might that not depend on the "alien" values and belief systems if they/it/whatever has any? Values are a concept that may vary and may not be present in any given type of being. Bears don't use money and it pays to have a healthy respect for them, same goes for bees.

Applying concepts like money to the values of an unknown species by a human does indicate the limitations of the human's perspective. For sure so I agree human equals bad. Bad-human.

They (that which is "alien") may value bovine rectum and lips, advanced biology, protein, water, anal-probing - stuff like that. Or they could even be entirely benevolent. They may even be quite naiive and gullible.

Their currency won't be paper. Earth is the densest rock in our solar system and as such has great value for many things. Some humans value speculation about speculation of this very phenomenon.

How about the "Old Ones" return for a little harvesting... how about a being that values spirit or vril energy (if there is such a thing) might just wait till this planet was full of humans and come harvest the crop... every soul - bummer. Or a being that valued humans as meat? Or just liked surfin' the net with other alienated aliens bringing perspective to perspective.

Successful beings do what is in their own perceived best self interest a little better than the next species of being and adapt to challenges more readily. They win.

Aliens - real aliens - may have many values. We should be perhaps as wary of "them" as we should be of other humans and hopefully they won't turn out as bad as we have.

[edit on 1-4-2007 by V Kaminski]

I don't think they would

If they are more advanced technological and spiritual there would not be a need of money.

The monetary system is already outdated by our terms in a way. And is holding us back more then it is pushing us forward.

I'd suspect the occasional trading of items will always happen.. (I want *** of your, well then I want ***** you have in return)

and yes it's the root of a lot of evil. not all but lot's

e.g.

why cure aids? when you can make oodles of cash with intermediate solutions for years before curing it?
(it's like choosing between a one time sale and a subscription service... subscriptions bring in a lot more money)

we don't explore space more, why? .. money...
(who knows where we could be at without money)

people live in inhumane conditions on lots of places in the world... why? money...
(any idea how many people could be fed with bill gates' capital alone? ow well at least he willed all of his to charity)

we don't drive 100% clean cars and use clean energy despite being technologically able to... why?.... money..... (a hydrogen based combustion engine hasn't been that far fetched for ages despite what they might want you to believe, and car performance isn't a reason either. the properties of hydrogen would make them even more powerfull as it burns hotter and fiercer, to boot we can make oodles of the stuff with bacteria so the "we can't because it uses the same (or more) amount of energy electrolyzing hydrogen out of water then that you in turn get out of the hydrogen" is hogwash too)

*sighs*

My hope is technology. I see a future where technology simply makes money irrelevent. if most labor is done by robotics, items can be synthesized and so on there's no use.. just hope we don't slide back into decadence when that happens... if that ever happens.. I think we'll destroy ourselves before we reach that point.

This also the last reason why aliens won't use money.. if they are that far ahead of us. most manufacturing on their world will be done automaticly, highly advanced nanotechnology can make any food item or small equipment out of a mix of essential atoms. it's irrelevant

No. Aliens would not use money. Why would they bother using something so obscure as money?

How can people on Earth justify the monetary system that we have as being an indicator of worth?

Some tall people, capable of accurately throwing a ball can get paid multiple millions of dollars per year by playing roughly 70 games of 'throw-the-ball'. Big f*****g deal. Other people get paid multiple millions of dollars per year to hit a small, white ball around with a long stick. Other people get paid multiple millions of dollars per year to hit a fuzzy green ball across a net with a racquet. The better that you can hit a ball in front of TV cameras, obviously means the more money that you are worth, right???

Meanwhile, top academic minds with visionary ideas, struggle to gain research dollars to further the quality of life for all humanity.

Money is a joke.

Be it said that I agree completely with the sentiments of the previous poster and wish in no way to detract from the serious and proper views perceived to be therein. On a serious level I agree, more resources for sensible research.

Professional cricket bowlers do make too much "money". But at least they are good at something, and complicate the geo-political-media balance and about those humans with the long sticks and white balls - billiard bile, I agree some of those who are in the fuzzy "green" ball game are a racket and with their media racquets they are loud and do make a cacaphonous racket across the "Net". Bloody over paid environmentalists. Data-smog emitters! Sequlcher of bandwidth! Sequester them I say! ARRRRGH!

I am OUTRAGED, INCENSED, INCREDULOUS AND INCANDESCENT - LIGHT IS LEAKING OUT MY NOSTILS AND OTHER ORFICES - The Keyboard... Hey the monitor's melting? A Sony? OMG... I'm morphing... I don't "need" a keyboard anymore? cool... What the bloody-heck? Huh?... I'm floating... OOBE? Holy Cow I see SMG! The Svengali eyes are making me... It's Ratsy an Stevey-o... Serada too? No wait it's not - it's hideous and oozing... Haxor?

Edit: Date sensitive classified material - dispostion "Roundfile" cabinet, CFB Downsview.

[edit on 1-4-2007 by V Kaminski]

I've thought about this question a lot, I mean I'm
only 16 yrs old, but I believe in all the alien stuff,
though I've never seen an alien or even a UFO.
Well, until two weeks ago.

It was a Thursday, the evening was just settling in
and my parents were watching a sit-com downstairs.
I live in a small town in the UK and nothing ever
happens here, until a couple of weeks ago.

I regulary browse this site and I was wondering how
aliens aquire their technology. Do they just steal it?
Do they barter for it or buy it? I was pondering this
when I glanced out of my bedroom window.

My mom had just asked me to turn 'My Chemical
Romance' CD down and I had just looked at my Slip
Knot Grimace bedside clock. It was 7.15pm.

The streetlights were just coming on and the No.247
bus had just stopped at the corner of my street and
what I saw getting off the bus startled me.

There were two of them, a man carrying a badly-dented
backpack and someone who I first thought was a woman.
It was the stride and swagger on the second figure that
told me this was a man, although his attire said otherwise.
He was dressed in a Bo Peep-style dress and lurched down
the street carrying a curled shepherd's crook.

I 'oggled' at this strange sight and wondered what was going
on. The evening was warm, the rain had stopped a few hours
ago. I quietly opened my window and listened to their conversation
wafting up from the street.

What I heard disturbed me, the guy with the back-pack was muttering
about aliens and how they had ruined his life. The 'dressed-up guy' was
ahead and nodded at times, but he seemed to want to race forward,
as if he had an urgent quest.
I had just heard the 'Back-pack Man' say how he was gonna get his
revenge on the Reptilians who had plagued his life, when I banged my elbow
on the sill. They both stopped and looked up at me.
I ducked down and held my breath. I felt foolish, I was safe in my own home
and my parents were downstairs. I looked nervously over the window sill
into the night.
The two men were still there and Bo-Peep called up "It's okay kid, we're
the normal ones".
I gingerly stood up and waved, they both waved back. I could see the
back-pack man's face glow red, due to a cigar he was smoking and his
craggy features made me think of a veteran soldier, lost but not beaten.
Bo Peep's face was just shadow under the lace bonnet.

I took a chance and grabbed my biker jacket. I don't have a motorcycle,
but I like the look. I shinnied down the drainpipe and trotted across our
lawn, watching the standing strangers all the time.

I checked my pocket for my mobile phone as I closed on them, but they
just both turned away and set off continuing their trek.
I shrugged and fell in line.

I asked the question you've asked, Bo Peep snorted and said "If they
do... they owe me a lot of it!" I nodded and focused on the road ahead.
Now there were three of us.

I'll continue later.