Basically, without money you'd get too many DJs and too few plumbers. Money fixes that balance problem.
Money itself doesn't fix that balance problem. It's the allocation of money. I don't disagree with the idea that some type of work is unpleasant and necessary for society so there has to be some system of incentives to make people do that type of work. I disagree with the notion that the 'communist paradise' necessarily reduces such incentives to the point that society starves and dies.
As I said, I think Xyrik's scenario (evenly dividing wealth among everyone) is too radical. But you could definitely engineer systems where people are freed from basic survival needs yet still have incentives to work for the benefit of society. I see no contradiction here.
Of course, so what? Small-scale agriculture is remarkably inefficient. Specifically, it cannot feed the current population.
Again, I already mentioned this.
Do tell me about that experience. I'm curious.
I disagree with the notion that the 'communist paradise' necessarily reduces such incentives to the point that society starves and dies.
What actually happens is, of course, a bit different. If you take money out of the picture (as e.g. the USSR, Communist China, etc. did), another currency becomes dominant. That currency is power and the society becomes reliant on just force to make things happen. Recall that being unemployed was a criminal offense in the USSR.
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Sigh. Let me quote myself from upthread:
It works for small communities which mooch off larger societies
How much money would it take to engineer biological immortality for at least half of the world's population, within 20 years, with 99% confidence?