@Trojans40 I actually have thought about this, no expert certainly and these are just my personal, relatively uneducated in the field of economics at least, but I just don’t see a reasonable alternative. With your hour for an hour scheme how would someone save for retirement or buy a car? How do you gauge the worth of an average doctor, say a completely average GP against a superior plumber? And how do you compare an hour of labor from this superior plumber against an hour of labor of an even more above average and superior pianist? And not everyone is paid by the hour. But, if we were how would we save and invest? You can’t save or invest or earn interest on “hours” but you can save and invest and earn interest on money. And how would we buy and sell things without money. Barter is really out of the question, I think. Certainly for somethings, in some circumstance, it still works but not on a massive, global scale for every transaction. There are who know how many hundreds of billions of transactions of all sorts, large and small, involving between two and who knows how many people, between individuals, between individuals and business and corporations, between corporations, between nations, how do we manage all that without money?