Would someone be able to enlighten me on what the cons of a hypothetical situation in which everyone on the planet decides to temporarily get rid of the concept of money or currency, and pool our collective resources and ideas without worrying about who owes who? I mean on paper it sounds great, and obviously this is extremely hypothetical as it's virtually impossible to get all human life on Earth to actually do that, but are there hidden cons here that I'm not really seeing?
I've not really gone into too much thought on this, it was mostly a fleeting thought, and I was curious what others thought.
So far not mentioned in replies to this is that there are many examples of productive organizations that do not organize around money. Two leap to mind:
Military. Rarely do the various units and platoons trade with the other components of the military for their supplies, nor do they bid on missions. To the extent trade occurs it is usually barter and usually outside official accepted ways of doing things.
Business units. Large businesses may use separate calculations of returns to determine some very macro choices between business units.
But th...
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