Moneyless Society: The Next Economic Evolution

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Barnett, William A (2012) Getting it Wrong. How Faulty Monetary Statistics Undermine the Fed, the Financial System, and the Economy. MIT press. These coupons wouldn't be money, as money serve as a medium of exchange, and these coupons don't serve as medium of exchange. It's often said that money serve as a medium of exchange, but the whole concept of "medium of exchange" was invented in context of solving "double coincidence of wants" of a barter system. Like if I have a bag of rice, but I want to have some beef, then I need to find a person who wants to get rice and give some beef in return. If I have some kind of medium of exchange (like dollars), then I can just exchange my bag of rice for said medium of exchange, and then exchange said medium of exchange for some beef, which give me much more flexibility. But this flexibility is gone if I have, say, food coupons for X loaves of bread, that only I can use. Thus this version of coupons can't be considered to be a medium of exchange, at the least if rules are properly enforced.

Azis, Haris; Li, Bo; Wu, Xiaowei (2019-05-22). "Strategyproof and Approximately Maxmin Fair Share Allocation of Chores". DeepAI. arXiv: 1905.08925. There is only one way to make this work on a large scale, and that is extensive slavery. Otherwise there are always many very important jobs that no one would do without getting a significant reward. Sewage work and waste treatment are gross for everyone, woodcutting or such are too dangerous to do them without immediate need. It is also worth considering that for the most part of human history, people worked without being paid any money. Salaried jobs (with salaries paid in money) became common only after the Industrial Revolution. And even with salaried jobs being the norm today, a significant amount of work 1 is done without being paid: Domestic labour, child and elderly care, volunteer work, hobbies, and so on. The redistribution economy, which is a more authoritarian case of mutualism. For example, the Incas and possibly, also the empire of Majapahit. [27]Heavy use of censorship and primitivization of culture. The government will likely to actively shape culture, and it will shape it in a way, that will make people less diverse and complicated in their wants/needs. There may be a closed household economy, where a specific (perhaps familial) group of individuals benefits from the work performed. The point being that in a normal economy highly desirable and scarce goods and services will command higher prices, and people will have to prioritize their resources if they really want them. In a communist society there is no money, hence there are no prices, and allocating those desirable goods and services can only be done by decree. In extreme cases of survival, the open nature of the household economy is most evident. Food, clothing, toiletries, and basic necessities were often shared or exchanged amongst war-torn, impoverished families in East Europe post-communism. [7] Cooking, cleaning, clothes-making, and forms of work may seem to be intuitively thought of as work. An Australian study (1992) determined that an estimated 380 million person-hours per week were spent on these types of unpaid activities, compared to 272 million hours per week at paid work. [8]

The technological, scientific and artistic characteristics of this world could be much richer and more advanced than in our own since money would not be necessary to make such developments; Heidemarie Schwermer (2015). Das Sterntalerexperiment – Mein Leben ohne Geld[ The Sterntaler experiment - My life without money] (in German). BoD – Books on Demand. ISBN 9783738622850. Moneyless.org is not run by religious folks, but it's nice to add some perspective. And the bible is the most published book in the world. It also has some interesting things to say about money:

Moneyless society in the bible

There would be no concept of poor and rich since everyone could have the same standards of living with relatively ease. So people would be only in poverty if they wanted to. Everyone would be equal. One could argue, that the material incentive to work in fact discourage people to work efficiently. Karl Marx said, that the alienation caused by the need to perform work which one do not enjoy, leads to the dicrease of one's possibilities and thus hinders the progress of the society. One who perfom his job only to satisfy his most basic needs will never be an efficient worker. Currently we live in a much more complex society than anything that existed before. More and more people and relationships, it seems almost impossible to live without money. Still, that is what some people such as Heidemarie Schwermer, elf Pavlik and Mark Boyle are doing.

In principle, a communist society is supposed to overcome this problem by employing an all-powerful central planning organization, which uses pervasive (and invasive) sources of information to learn how many size A bras are to be produced in the next quarter, how many size B, how many size C and so on. Unfortunately, this doesn't work, from both practical and theoretical reasons.a b c White-Means, S. I.; Zhiyong, D. (2012). "Valuing the Costs of Family Caregiving: Time and Motion Survey Estimates" (PDF). Consumer Interests Annual. 58: 1–8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-03-20 . Retrieved 2013-05-17. It does not seem to have occurred to the author, highly commendable as his vision is, that a mass democratic movement using the ballot box to win the political control needed to coordinate the change effectively is the most likely and most practical way to achieve a moneyless, marketless society. This once the necessary spread of consciousness has been achieved and plans to democratically organise that society are in place. However, this divergence between the author’s view and that of socialists can perhaps best be seen not as a difference in overall vision but rather one of strategy. And in that sense what we have here is an important and highly refreshing book putting centre-stage ideas and discussions about how to dispense with capitalism and establish a new society based on a sustainable balance between cooperative production for use and ecological stewardship of the planet.