I’m trying to figure out how a moneyless society can work. If we don’t have money, don’t we trade? We’ll always use some form of currency, after all we do trade everyday.
The evolution of money is entirely natural and will occur anywhere unless it is prevented. It is nothing but the most generally accepted medium of exchange. There is no thought behind their moneyless society, only mysticism and irrationalist dislike.
From the thread on sociobiology and libertarianism:
One anti-libertarian tendency that I see as highly pronounced is the mistrust money and monetary exchanges; ranging across many political ideologies. Money is the non plus ultra of both indirect coordination and the ‘unseen’. Money’s particular usefulness is almost nil (aside from its non-montary functions) and it only comes into its own in exchange, thus making it seem as people are demanding and accumulating something which is on the face of it useless; that people are starving for want of a commodity that has no obvious function. Likewise money is the prime coordinator of the production processes, making capitalists and financial markets appearing to the layman nothing more than useless shuffling around of a useless commodity.