whether one wishes to call it “currency” or not, there will always be some form of communication between the systems that decide what is produced, how it’s produced, and for whom.

Although part of the problem with currency in the liberal capitalist paradigm is that the household sector has a deliberately suppressed voice in that decision making process.

In capitalism, the private corporations and government bureaus just eat each other’s excrement and try as hard as possible to ignore the household sector (the citizen population).

The ability to communicate demand is the entire purpose of even HAVING some store of value/means of exchange/unit of account.

Automating this such that nobody would even have to do any personal tabulation, though, would indeed be ideal. Such as the lovely Fully Automated Gay Space Communism of Star Trek! Everybody’s basic needs are met and even most of their reasonable wants. Even then, not everybody can just requisition a whole-ass starship for their own personal use, though. There are inevitably SOME limiting factors on what someone can acquire.

I really do hope more people (such as progressive leftists) can get around their preconceived notion that capitalism, commodity production and value-forms is the only way a society can organize productive forces. Many of the issues of today aren’t the result of us having the “wrong kind of currency”, but the fact that currency is necessary in the first place.

All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a right to their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as “The Right to work,” or “To each the whole result of his labour.” What we proclaim is THE RIGHT TO WELL-BEING: WELL-BEING FOR ALL!