Is there any other appropriate medium for exchange of services and goods than money?

Question

What a hell with money! someone may rob your money in seconds that you earned with bearing hardships in years.

Can there be a more appropriate way for exchange of services and goods?

Answer 1

there were several local barter / exchange systems developed in the eighties and nineties, intiaily as a way of getting communities to work locally, but they became to be a way of avoiding tax

They still exists as LETS... local exhcange trading schemes

Answer 2

mad max here wanna barter, the old form of exchange that started the movie was theft of his goods, it isn't a bad system, but there is such a low ceiling on earnings that there are too many people needing the same things, that make the baby boomers death look good, when there gone there was going to be lots left over, but the think tank people tore down the borders so this can't happen, beside i die first I'm builder Bob generation and that dies before baby boomers

Answer 3

It still does exist in the very rural parts of the country. Mrs Jones does Fred Whites` laundry once a week, and Fred digs Mrs Js` garden and cuts her lawn. Miss Pembroke does the weekly shopping for Gladys Fork, and Gladys bakes pies and cakes for Miss P. After school little Freddy takes his neighbours dog for a walk across the back field and in return,the neighbour gives him free piano lessons.
You don`t need money if you live in the middle of no where, with nothing to spend it on!

Answer 4

No. There is direct barter, where you can trade your two pigs for a horse -- when you need a horse more than you need two pigs, and you meet someone who needs two pigs more than they need their horse. That's a somewhat cumbersome approach to trade though.

But if you implement any kind of more sophisticated system of encapsulating value so that you can exchange it with other people, then that system is, by definition, money.

You can try to do without money altogether and just count on cooperative communal exchange when anyone needs something -- but that communist fantasy is destined always to fail.

So, money is it.

Answer 5

Isn't this philosophy resembling marriage. IE man goes to work, pays for food and house for woman, woman then gives man sex.

Answer 6

cigarettes