As far as I know no one "created" money, it was a natural and useful economic innovation which allowed for the division-of-labor.
You make it seem like an either/or thing--as if we can either work for money or love each other (how am I supposed to love strangers I don't even know?), which is a false dichotomy.
Nothing is 'free'.
How do you define "work"? I once talked to a 'communist' (a useless university intellectual living fat, at least in part, off of tax-dollars provided by people who work in the 'crapitalist' system, LOL) who claimed that the 'workers' were being 'exploited' by capitalism and the profit motive, and I asked him to tell me, in the situation of a grocery-store chain/corporation, who was the "exploiter" and who the "exploitee"...it was fun to see him wrap himself into a pretzel trying to draw the line between the two! Maybe you can do better?
Communists seem to have no clue about economic incentives and how humans respond to them...and when I look at welfare recipients who get 'free' shit, I don't exactly see them out there trying to make the world a better place...when I look at 'free' schools I don't see excellence...when I look at every human attempt to create a communist utopia I see the 10's of MILLIONS of bodies piled up by the likes of the USSR, East Bloc, Red China, and N. Korea (but I suppose these aren't examples of 'real' communism)...I see lots of 'communists' (i.e., spoiled Westerners living lives of capitalist-provided comfort) online, but very few working communes in real life where people work for each other simply out of brotherly love...
What I do see is a lot of people whining about how awful capitalism is while benefiting from the fruits of it, and a lot of jealousy directed at people whom society deems are worth more relative to the 'communists' in the West who are better off than 90% of the rest of the world.
If I own a mechanic shop and if I expect it to survive I have to make triple what the mechanic gets paid from the mechanic's labor.
If I do nothing else this is what has to happen in a successful business.
If I extrapolate to corporations and thousands of shareholders who do nothing but get paid from the value that the worker creates but doesn't get paid in wages have I made the exploitation more clear to you?
By following crapitalistic models we get what we have.
Extreme poverty outside the gated communities.
Starving children outside full warehouses.
War, because there are trillions to be made.
$10 an hour because the rocafellas need to accumulate another quadrillion dollars.
I could go on, but I prefer to build the future and not be controlled by the past.
The distribution system that is Walmart/target/Costco can be used to distribute goods whether those goods are accounted for in crapitalust paradise or a worker paradise.
Which do you prefer?
Free stuff or wage slavery?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-there-is-no-communism-in-russia
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