I truly respect this guy.

 

"For the first time, I was seriously realizing I could live totally moneyless."

Um yeah... because you hitch hiked off other people's generosity, and used clothing and tools created by the money-society you are pretending to reject. And then took a flight to Thailand and India, using a plane built by thousands of years of human ingenuity and progress which was enabled by trade and exchange, which was in turn facilitated by money... and then reported about it on a computer.

The dude is a 'tard. Wanna live off the grid? Fine, that's cool. But unless you're crafting tools from wood and stone and living in a shelter made of logs with clothes made from grasses and deer skins, then you're just fooling yourself.

A moneyless society is a society of starvation and utter poverty, and a world without trade, production, and exchange is a world without the leisure time one might desire for the purposes of reflecting on such fantastical notions as "a world without money."

Does he ever define what he means by money?

Money makes trading more efficient.  Trying to operate in a modern world without money is complete lunacy.

Money is just a tool/invention to make it easier to trade services and stuff.
Instead of having to carry your stuff around, you sell it and carry the money around, money is easier to divide.

Lets say you have a car and you dont need it. You need food for several days, a bicykle, different kind of clothes.
Now with money you sell your car and can than go and get the other things when you need them.

No need to trade the car into 5 bicykles, trade one of the bicykles into books (you dont need) than trade the books into some clothes which does not really fit.

If you think money in itself is the problem you don´t get what money is. Money is just a thing like a book. But the book only have value to the person who wants to read it. You are making it harder on you if you try to find the person who does and can give you clothes for it.

Its just easier to trade with the things we call money since we can agree on the value everyone has use for them for anything.

Sure you can live currency free but why make your life difficult...

You don't need currency in a resource based economy. Money is the mechanism we use to justify denying people the necessities of life.

A resource based economy is a step in the right direction, but still rewards corruption

I would prefer an honour based economy, you get EVERYTHING from the start (ACCESS to everything, not 'ownership') and lose access to things if you are a drain or otherwise harmful, the basic needs a person has would be the minimum a person gets and that would be for never doing anything helpful or actively being harmful, the people that do a 40 hour work week (or whatever is needed from everyone) would never lose anything - working would be about maintaining your current life, instead of swimming against the current to try and get a 'better' life, people that do more than is required could build up 'honour' and go on a long vacation that doesn't affect what access they get.

Most crimes would be changed to just lower 'honour', prisons would be for the murderers, rapists and people that had kids just to steal from them as a way to avoid working (among others i am sure, but only the most destructive need be removed)

I can not see this working with a human run government, so we either need robotic government or some way to decentralise human government

It is money that has promoted greed, it is not hardwired but programmed into us, no one is born greedy, at the invention of "the economy" it was meant to help people, to minimise waste, but it has not, it has failed and it is time for a new "system"

This ^

Money is not something that was invented. Currency is.

You're confusing the motivation of greed with the expression of intense interest. Give them two identical objects and they can each interact and learn about them individually. And if your argument is that we should maintain a childlike mindset by engaging in this convoluted monetary system, then that is an incredibly low bar to set for ourselves. Let's move it up.