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>I don't see why this would require money for accounting purposes since you can easily distribute these very rare goods by merit.
That's an absolutely terrible idea. Do you really not see the problem with having a committee being able to decide who gets what and when? Fuck merit, it all becomes a question of who can suck up the most to those faggots or nepotism. It sounds a) Corrupt as fuck b) So buried in bureaucracy that having money would be 10x times more efficient.
>There is another problem with that - with all the common consumer goods and needs being fulfilled, how does one make "money" in the first place? You can't sell anything to people.
<There are rare goods which people can't afford
<Team of engineers produces [Luxury good 1]
<They also exchange [Luxury good 1] for more equipment designed to make [Luxury good 1] easier to produce
<The wheels of capitalism start rolling
<Obtain luxury goods for all the group via trade with off world feds/some other guys in Earth
Or you could've just had money in the first place and not have the engineers have to come up with a plan which includes where and with whom to team up, what item to produce, what to trade and who to trade with. Or suck some dicks from the committee of luxury goods. That's my problem with moneyless society, it's exactly the same corruption and problems without the practicality of currency.
>I admit that there is apparently a black market for such things in the Federation (see Bones' attempt to buy a ship in TSFS)
And that's because the moneyless society shit on a larger scale falls apart as soon as you realize the labor of some individuals is far more valuable than others, and so there will be inequality which if it were not because the people from the future "have surpassed greed and lust" it would create unhappiness in the losers of the world, who would probably start some shit because pePost too long. Click here to view the full text.
