Why barter is better than money.

What happens when someone buys a service for you with tokens which you only accept because they are a medium of exchange and then after refused to exchange with your tokens but still benefited from what you gave them.  This problem does not happen with barter if you bartered for something with a use other than bartering so if you are stuck with what you get you still get something useful.

With money in the end people start divorcing the purpose of the action from the intended result because the intended result becomes just to make more money.  This in turn results in series of numerous extra needless transactions that are actually useless and increased paperwork to account for money.

Since money can just be taken away it is better to give gifts for a well fed neighbor has less insensitive to assault you for food but one who only gives food in exchange for money may find themselves the victim of robbery resulting in the perceived need to hire security and in the end wasting what money they would have made.

Money created artificial scarcity

Money reduces the incentive for productivity since  if all the items produced in the world were produced in double quantity people would not be able to sell them for more money with supply and demand.  But without money if the items produced were doubled people could benefit from having more items to use for the purpose they were intended and if duplication of an item creates no gain but is wasteful of resources it need not be produced if it has no use but with money it can be produced if you create a false sense of need or covetousness only to buy an item that later is found  useless this is the source of much environmental destruction and wasted time in the world creating unnecessary extra work hours for naught  of value.

Copyright Carl Janssen 2018 May 26