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"Money" isn't needed and there are enough resources available on earth so no one goes without.
I would say money is still a good way to keep track of things but we have enough resources that we should be living in a post-scarcity society with universal basic income
How so? One you produced 1kg of potatoes and i produced 1kg of apples, how do we exchange? There has to be either NxM exchange rates one for each pair of physical products, or if we allow money, only N rates, for each product against single currency?
You can't eat 1kg of apples, only .5kg before it goes bad. So you give the other .5kg away. Melsaskca also can't eat another .5kg of potatoes, so they give them away.
Okey lets accept this. What about products for which no particular individual has any practical usage, but can only be produced by multiple individuals?
That's why it's controversial. A good social fabric does things that math cannot.
I think the real controversial opinion here is that a good social fabric is possible.