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Are you advocating for not treating the sick whatsoever, or are you assuming total governmental funding for treating the sick?
'funding' is a capitalist term, but yes a simplification of socialist and post-currency economics would be 'the government funds treating the sick'.... like it does in 109 countries, including every developed nation, and a majority of recognized developing nations except the US.
What term would you use instead of “funding”? Even if we ditch capitalism, as we should, doctors et al still need to get paid, and hospitals still need money to operate (assuming we got rid of any for-profit healthcare). We wouldn’t be doing this with a barter system, right?
Why would there be transactions at all? What use is money if you can just get what you need?
The idea is to remove, albeit slowly, all of the distrust-based systems in society as we grow beyond simple fear-based order.
The problem is that the base still relies on humans. Even in a perfect system you can’t eliminate greed. Eventually someone will want more than what they need and use violence to take it and the cycle repeats