The Sale of Shame

I came across a wonderful article the other day covering Palmerston, an idyllic tropical island a part of the Cook islands in the south Pacific. Once home to around 300 residents, the island now hosts a meagre 67. They have no use for currency. Without rehashing the entire article they share everything with each other and have no need for sales, advertising, marketing but, do however partly rely upon a biannual trade with a cargo vessel for certain things. ______________________________________________________ Sales is manipulation to encourage another to part with more of their money than they were initially willing to do. The best salesmen are hypnotists and masters of the skill. You will hear that money makes the world go round, the almighty dollar is king, the power of the world lies in the laps of the one percent. These parroted phrases, full of perspective, widely accepted and suggesting wisdom is great salesmanship and we all seem to buy it. You will then hear the more moderated claim that money doesn't make you happy but certainly helps and last but not least that money is the root of all evil. Well, not to put too fine a point upon it I have found that money probably would not exist without sales. If everything had it's set, agreed upon value then there would not be any sales required, we would only deal without having to press the matter for that extra commission, that complimentary coupon, top up some points on your loyalty card. One final expression that comes to me now is that man is doomed to self destruct. Should this be a falsehood, a pessimistic extraction of our past impressed upon our future then I say this is too, a sale. If this saying is indeed a falsehood then I shall predict that one day, long into the future, mankind will one day return to truly fair trade, return to benevolence having lost the 'need' for money and look shamefully upon such a long history of sales. We will find that indeed the possibilities for our future will have become quite limitless.

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