"Humans are selfish by nature, but they also have an excellent capacity to work together. This is why capitalism works and socialism always fails. Your article refers to "distributing goods and services". Who is in charge of making the decision about who gets what? Government? This would require an organized centralized power and centralized power ALWAYS leads to tyranny. Individuals voluntarily trading goods and services is the only humane way for us to exist as a free society.

The problems that we are having right now are because we do not live in a capitalist society. We live in something like an oligarchic democracy or crony capitalist system where an elite few have extensive control over everyone else."

"The coupon idea is interesting but I don't think it would work. Like money, the more coupons that are printed and in circulation, the less they would be worth. What's the incentive for a store to accept such coupons anyway? Since they're not really intrinsically worth anything there would be no incentive for anyone to want them.

In order for two people to trade, both must have something of value. In order for something to be valuable it has to be useful or be rare. This is why gold has been used as money for thousands of years. It is both useful and rare."