RE: A tree-hugger, an anarchist and a mystic walked into a bar…
Some interesting perspectives, for sure...
To me, money is a pretty nifty "temporary store of value" that makes it possible for me to trade the eggs my chickens just laid for someone to fix my plumbing when I actually have a need to get my plumbing fixed. Or whatever. If things like "availability" and "needs" all happened along a nice straight line, I wouldn't need money... but since my plumbing breaking doesn't necessarily happen according to my chickens' egg laying schedule, I will probably continue to use money. Or cowries. Or gold dubloons.
I love the idea of transhumanism, gift economies, anarchism, pure libertarianism and so on... but they tend to be ideologies that are seldom-- if ever-- functionally implementable in the real the world because they assume a level of intelligence, insight and self-awareness very few people have... and even want. At best, they exist as intellectual ideals from which we-- hopefully-- can derive hybrid variations that can actually be applied on broader scales.