Memes of Production

I didn’t read it as anti-money, I read it as pro-nature, from an indigenous man who owes his entire existence to his people’s relationship with and stewardship of nature.

I don’t know much about his culture other than that. I do know that there are cultures that operate without formal currency. One example is a gift economy. These systems are argued to foster closer relationships and a stronger community than a monetary economy.

I don’t know how they could scale up to millions of people though, since they seem to depend heavily on personal relationships and reputation to punish cheating and free-riding. If you’re further arguing that we shouldn’t have societies of millions of people and instead we should live in villages with large extended families and kinship networks, well now you have my attention!

Yes, and about nature, and about the "free" things it supposedly gives you - except Nature doesn't 'give' us anything, it just exists. And if we want to get useful things from it, it's usually not free, we have to pay with our labour and time - and money is just the capitalist proxy for labour and time that enables people to have specialised jobs while still getting all the different types of things people need. Alternate systems could distribute the resources more equitably, but it would still require time and labour to extract it from Nature.