• _NoName_@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    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.