Incentives aren't just a part of discourse but any learning function essentially - if there isn't an incentive to change then it just "sticks to the default pla

Incentives aren't just a part of discourse but any learning function essentially - if there isn't an incentive to change then it just "sticks to the default plan or lack of plan". If they don't have any incentives the system won't react to changes and if they are misaligned they will tend towards the wrong reaction systemically. For better or worse in the real world fundamentals "leak" past the officially set incentives and may undermine them. Monetary per-se and capitalism per say are an anchronistic terms as trade goods filled the niche for millenia be they perishables like food and furs or imperishables like gold and jewels. Communism could be called a deep retro throwback to palace economies. There is a lack of records of personal wealth or tracking and the indication there from sunken ships shows outgoing local goods and incoming foreign goods in bulk in amounts beyond personal production or usage. Essentially it is apparent that the leadership took all outputs and allocated supplies as needed to those under them. Sounds similar to "from each according to their abilities and to each according to their needs". It proved in the end eventually unpopular and unsustainable given the Bronze Age collapse and their complete lack of survival of old palace economies even with other benefits. Although given bronze age standards a lot of people wanted to kill their neighbors for various reasons (revenge for theft, captures, and killings) so it may have been unrelated to the economics.