There was a Harry Harrison book (one of the stainless stell rat books) that had the work/hour as currency. The computer credited you with how many hours you worked, and then goods and services were available for that many hours. I kinda like that. It puts emphasis on doing what you like to do, instead of what you get paid the most for.

>>True, although I'm hoping to one day see (hopefully while I'm alive) a world "a la Star Trek" where there is one government, money no longer exists and such. I know this may sound ridiculous, but when you analize Star Trek and
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> Yeah, but who's gov't would it be based off of? And if money no longer exists things still have a value and they need to be "paid for" one way or another. If not, what motivation do people have to do anything for themselves? They can leach off of other people's work. Personally, I'm not really interested in living under a Socialist (or the other alternatives) gov't which is unfortunately the way the US gov't has been heading.