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Very interesting, thank you for the write-up! Out of curiosity, how does a moneyless society work?
Just I do you solids, you do me solids? How does a moneyless society allow trade if one party doesn't have any goods the other party wants?
That's what the library is for! Instead of buying things, you borrow from the community library. When you no longer need to use that thing, you return it to the library. If you need to own something, you get it from the library or you can make it/privately trade for it. As much labor as possible is automated, while the people performing labor do it out of passion and at their own pace, with the goods being manufactured for the library to distribute. Some of the automated manufacturing and 3d printed custom designs can be onsite and available to the public.
Interesting! It's a cool concept for sure
There's many different types of moneyless economies. Just gonna spitball a couple ancient ones at you.
In a gift economy, individuals will create things and share them amongst the the community. These gifts just keep being given over and over, and not reciprocating a gift eventually leads to poor standing.
In a community stockpile, everyone works together to collect what others need. A group essentially tracks the stockpiling and helps determine how the stockpile should be used, such as in times of low yield.
My understanding is that Marx believed that there'd eventually be a day when people would essentially do group-makes for whatever they needed or wanted. Basically no money or anything - one guy would go "I want this", he and others would volunteer, they'd all work together to design a fabrication process, and then would all make as many of the thing as there were those who wanted it. A completely volunteer process.