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Originally Posted by Pudwoppa
I didn't say that one exists or had ever existed. I said it's daft to rule out the possibility that society would progress past money, and that it may or may not be better than what we have now. I made no assertions as to how the logistics would pan out.
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No, you talked of a 'society without money' not being a 'regression'.
Utopia.
Every unconnected society that's ever existed on this planet, have eventually evolved some sort of monetarist/bartering system, when they've evolved from being hunter gatherers.
It's what made us civilised, rather than just providing food and shelter for ourselves.
Make enough pots to sell, and hopefully you'll have earned enough money to feed yourself when you're old, and racked with arthritis, and no longer able to work.
A place with no money, where we only provide for our own immediate needs, in a survival of the fittest, dog eat dog world, wouldn't be some utopian idyll...it would be a nightmare.