FYI: This is a work in progress.
Capitalism doesn't exist money. Which means bartering. The value of your service or product is measured strictly by its need. Labor done in advance of a product or service has to be stored. If you help someone construct a building that person requires food to work. But that person doesn't get paid until the building is complete. He must buy food on credit. Six months later the building is destroyed before it is completed. His credit is set to zero. The grocer wants his goods or services for the food you received for six months. The grocer puts you to work cover the food you consumed but you still have to eat so you find someone else who needs labor.
How long do you think this scenario will continue and replicate itself before it breaks? In a small community, probably decades, if not centuries. As soon as geography and population rise, money has to be created as a short term solution to handling stored labor. So, as long as a community can restrict itself to size and population you have something.
Otherwise, you'll need to track the value of labor over distance and time, That is to say if you worked in an office for eight hours your amount of work has a value set by your employer. That information has to be at the point where it is immediately transferrable to everyone.
But you say that food, shelter, education, medical should be available to everyone? Awesome. That means deductions from everyone who works. Those deductions are based on factors such as the value of your work throughout the entire system. The value of an hour of a secretary's time is the same no matter where the secretary is located. You would need levels of competency to determine more specific values that would also length of service as a factor.
You would have to be willing to live in a society where your existence is taxed instantaneously, regularly, and where the tax is compulsory. Your apartment might cost $800 per month now but five minutes from it will cost $810 per month. But it’s not by month; it’s by hour and deducted from your credit on the hour.
If you’re sick you’re fed and your medical needs are taking care of. Your housing is covered. All the needs for you and your family are covered either by the government or by their contractors. You are not penalized.
If you can deal with the government knowing EVERYTHING about your finances then great. If not you would be welcome to “cash out” and go be a part of some other society.
Hacking of any kind is punishable by either death or expulsion. Violent crimes put you in prison where you have to work at public manual labor but you are monitored. Your work credit is given to the state. Your prison time is the same everywhere.“Time served” is converted to labor hours. All violations while serving time result in an increase in your labor hours.
Is a supervisor more important than its workers? Is the boss to accrue more value than the worker? Would you be willing to live in a society where no matter what your occupation you earn the same as the one who delivers your coffee? Would everyone be willing to live in this world?
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