Determining value is the value of money. Without it we might get too busy making paperclips and forget to feed people all the same. It's a crude system, more a

Determining value is the value of money. Without it we might get too busy making paperclips and forget to feed people all the same. It's a crude system, more ad-hoc evolved than intelligently designed, and definitely historically manipulated at every chance. Nonetheless, anyone who lobbies for the dissolution of our monetary systems can't be taken seriously unless they also are arguing for a suitable replacement of this functionality. In the past, systems that relied on the opinions of a small group or single individual to determine the value of different types of production to society have failed spectacularly so the solution will need to be more robust than that.