There is nothing evil about money. Money is just an inanimate object. Money is something we create to fulfill a purpose, to allocate scarce resources.
To be specific, money is a
record of surplus wealth. In the Stone Age virtually all human labor had to be allocated to producing food and other necessities. There was virtually no surplus wealth, and it was manifested as extra available labor. What little there was was allocated to the community as a whole: building monuments, improving the fence around the livestock, sending out explorers to find new medicinal herbs instead of meat, etc.
As society became more efficient, there was more surplus wealth, but still tribes were so small that there was no need to record it. Everybody knew who was overproducing and who needed help.
It was only in the Bronze Age, with its large cities populated by anonymous strangers who produced a significant surplus with their metal tools and other new technologies (such as the wheel and large, strong draft animals), that it became necessary to record who owed what to whom. If Billy made new wheels for Sam's wagon in summer and Sam brewed a vat of wine for Sherry in autumn and Sherry knitted a winter outfit for Mary's new baby in spring and Mary played her lute at John's summer festival and then John put new windows in Billy's house, how would anybody know if these were all fair trades?
They had to find a way to record all this, using some common commodity as a standard, often jugs of olive oil. They made scratches on clay tablets, and eventually these scratches became more sophisticated until one day they had a written language. Yes folks, writing was invented by businessmen, not priests or scholars.
We do the same thing today. I worked 40 hours last week, and my boss doesn't have anything that I need, so he just gave me a
record of the fact that he owes me for forty hours of technical writing. It's called a paycheck. It's got his name, my name, the name of the bank that holds onto his surplus wealth (we call it "money" today), and the amount of his wealth that bank will give me if I go in and ask for it.
This is the way commerce works in a surplus-driven economy, and the U.S. economy toggled from scarcity-driven to surplus driven around 1895. Since then most people have money saved and can afford to buy things that are not absolutely necessary.
All of the models of a money-less society are based on the unstated assumption that we're back in the Pre-Industrial Era with a scarcity-driven economy.
Fortunately, we're not. So forget about that model. It just won't work when so much of our surplus wealth is being held in reserve for future purchases of non-essential things like vacations, motorcycles, concert tickets and fast food.
And as a final salvo, ponder the fact that the only more-or-less modern civilization that attempted to implement an economy like the one suggested was the USSR and its network of satellites. And by golly, they all ended up as
scarcity-driven economies!
Nobody is going to fall for that again!