This "natural instinct to truck and barter" only showed up about 200 to 300 years ago. Before then there was feudalism, chieftains, etc. Humans have had other technologies for distributing social assets.
I think I'm missing what you're saying, can you expound on this? There are records of mercantile law going back to Hammurabi; there's been paper fiat currency in China since the 7th century or so. Coinage and trade has plenty of historical record in Phoenician and Roman era.
It is a powerful assertion to say you cant do something ever. There are many "natural creations of human interaction" to be discovered, and many that died or we definitely wish they died with a really strong consensus.
And prisons having currency could be a model example of how money is an arbitrary and unfair element of trade and distribution.
If we can create , then we can destroy just as easily.
It's not enough to 'destroy' money, you'd have to prevent it from reappearing. Since it's easy for communities to create 'money', destroying it won't bring any freedom or radical change; just disruption.
It's just as with anarchy - you can destroy government, but you can't prevent "government"(s) from springing up to replace them, and usually worse than the ones before.
Re:It Is Time For Basic Income
by stcredzero on Saturday March 22, 2014 @12:23AM
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It's not enough to 'destroy' money, you'd have to prevent it from reappearing.
If you can't get rid of drugs and prostitution, you won't be able to get rid of money.
Re:It Is Time For Basic Income
by atom-morgan on Saturday March 22, 2014 @07:22PM
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History has shown that black markets are extremely resilient. Those two are great examples.
Idiotic equivalence. There are very few processes that can be reversed just as easily.
Radiation, waste heat, carbon dioxide - the list goes on and on.
Re:It Is Time For Basic Income
by atom-morgan on Friday March 21, 2014 @09:19PM
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Markets are powerful.
You can't eliminate money. It's a natural creation of human interaction. Even prisoners have money.