do we really need a money system?

[Yo_Mama]

112. No, profit is LIFE

If you are one of the people in the long supply chain who make coffee makers, you are not out there farming. You rely on the profits from what you sell to buy food. Somehow, even in a system without money, we'd need to figure out how much making a coffeemaker could contribute so we'd know we had enough to feed those people.

And if you are a doctor, you need to make enough money from treating people to buy food, shelter, keep the lights on, etc.

And the farmer needs to have enough extra from what he grows (on average) to be able to afford to buy medicine and pay the doctor.

Money isn't some abstract thing - money and the pricing system allows us to plan for what we need.

If we guaranteed every person the basics, we'd have a lot of people making stuff they loved, but no one wanting to do the scutwork.

Who fixes the sewers in your system? There are a lot of jobs that just aren't that thrilling, like a truck driver perhaps. Most people do those jobs purely for money.

I don't think your proposal makes any sense at all, and I think if it were ever attempted it would shortly become a system of slavery, which is essentially what communist planned economies turned into for many people. If you think it's bad to have to be a truck driver to earn a living, imagine what hell it would be to be a truck driver because some in authority forced you to be one. In the end, you'd have a much worse standard of living and NO WAY TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE.