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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FAST6191" data-source="post: 9933730" data-attributes="member: 32303">Nobody shares truly, and even without that there will always be free riders.The double coincidence of wants (we can barter but both will need to have what the other wants and in sufficient quantities, can happen but for it to happen for the trillions of interactions per day is going to fail in short order) is a real thing, one that can never be calculated around either (everybody has their own preferences, desires and assigned values, which can change by the second even if the goods were durable which is not the case). Plus there occasionally being items of individual and unique qualities that are not fungible (be it generally or to the specific person - Jimi Hendrix's headscarf being more interesting to many than your childhood favourite teddy that my dog can rip up just as well as any other stuffed animal which might be you and a few relatives that care)An abstraction then gets called for to dodge the coincidence of wants, the disproportionate values (my few trees of apples are not worth your tower block, likewise my time as skilled person tends to be worth more than burger flipper), act as a time mitigation of sorts (give or take inflation, technical advancement and similar forces). This gets called money. Sometimes it is backed by governments (aka force), sometimes it is backed by private enterprise (also force but usually of a different character, whether better or worse is situational but most usually say worse for most purposes but not all, not to mention they enjoy working under governments for various efficiency purposes), sometimes it is backed by mutual agreement and a lot of mathematics (what the crypto currency set arguably are aiming for, though probably still force of the previous two flavours for the underlying contracts).Short of sci fi levels of post scarcity or mind control there seems no way around it.</blockquote>

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