Obviously no one is going to do something without somehow being compensated. The deed performed would merit a compensation of equal value. If I do a job, what job is done in return to me? If I build something, will something be built for me? Who will determine that the "payment" (for lack of a better word) is equal to the job I performed?
Here is the system. For a society without money to operate, I'd believe you'd need to
YOur Society MUST have a shared goal and understanding about how you are going to move things forward and everyone's role and contribution in this will be valued EQUALLY. They will also have an impact on what goes on and how things are run.
Adopt a Life long learning attitude so society can reclaim back many of our basic skills we have lost out convinience and REDUCE the value and need for others to fulfill these skills for us.
Any Deed you perform MUST be less than the value of all the other things contributed to you. If you start seeking equal and opposite than you are putting a commodity on your work and feel equal compensation is required.
So on a small household scale, you might simply do the dishes, but you are fed, washed, cleaned entertained and kept warm. your sister may provide the etertainment and cleaning but then she has her dishes washed, is fed, kept warm etc. You'd also make sure your skills were transferable so if you left, the sytem would not fall about and they could be compensated for. The same goes for if you decided to reduce your input, instead of everyone else decreasing (feeling hard done by), you would still be provided for.
Of course over a life, with positive condition and an overwhelming sense that society has been good to you and provided you with your needs and hasn't attempted to manipulate you into wanting, one would be more inclined to pitch in because they have an emotional interest in their community members.
If I build a house with three bedrooms, and in return, I get a house with two bedrooms, have I been cheated? And what about the materials used to build that house? If I need so many thousands of nails, what is proper compensation for those nails? And what about the person who makes the nails? What can they get as compensation from the person who "buys" the nails? Remember, everything must have equal value. What is equal value to a nail?
If you build a house with three bedrooms AND can pass on some of that knowledge to others, you are fed, housed, entertained, kept warm, allowed to rest read learn, educate, relax, dance party, post on the hype, allowed fame prestige, technical gadgets, cars, the need to travel etc.
and this would be the same for all other professions. Of course this would ultimately lead to a streamlining of alot of jobs which would mean a lack of competition and a reduction in alot of service type roles but it would free up people in other sectors and provide more of a rotatary economy where people would have more time for further development and entertainment. It'd also reduce the stress the current system causes which makes the desire for extreme forms of escapisms less justified.
This is as I believe, no aspect in life is really worth more than any other. Life is not a sum of its parts but a unique collective synergy made up of everything. Take one aspect away and your subexisting.
But again, with regards to the house, we'd need to find out what type of house is needed rather than wanted. you'd have to find out what type of home could fulfill an individual's needs rather than their wants. If they do have wants, make them readily available so it doesn't make it a negative motivating phenomenon that makes them alter their input to society considerably.
See how it gets tricky? A single monetary unit that everyone agrees has value makes life so much easier. Sure there is compensation in prostitution (everyone likes sex) but who is the prostitute? What if you arent attracted to him or her? Drugs? Not everyone does drugs.
You're right, it's easier, easier to control other people. Easier to manipulate the masses with and keep in order.
