In reply to OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson's message of Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:49:04 -0600: Hi, [snip] You mentioned the example of the Chiropractor that would be paid anyway, even if the client didn't have the money to pay himself. What's to stop everyone from "purchasing" goods and services for which they have no money? IOW living a life of luxury, and contributing nothing in return? (and I can assure you there are many who would if it were possible).
The net result would be that little if anything got done, so the goods and services available would be severely limited. In fact I think this is at least partially what went wrong in the Soviet Union (empty shelves and long queues for basic commodities). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
