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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
What would be bartered if there was no private ownership? Wouldn't that just eliminate bartering all together?
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That's the joke. Even if you got society to the point where they would give up home ownership and money, people would just return to bartering because that would be the only effective way to sustain their existence. There's no incentive for anyone to put in the work to grow every kind of food: family units would stick to one or two kinds of crops. You might get an entire town to cooperate, but it's unlikely. There are logistical challenges to a world where everyone somehow "shares" everything that they don't even think about, and the only way you'd overcome those logistical issues would require society to take advantage of technology that has been a byproduct of capitalism.