[ziscore]

basically everything would become worthless

[Dozius]

Imagine waking up one day to find that money, in any form, no longer exists. No more cash, no digital currencies, no gold-backed systems, and no substitute like Bitcoin.

How would the world adjust, and what kind of system would replace the concept of exchanging money for goods and services?
Would we revert to barter, with individuals directly exchanging resources, skills, and products? 
Or would we develop something entirely new? Consider also the implications for motivation and innovation. 

In today's world, financial incentives drive much of the workforce and technological progress: If that disappeared, what would motivate people to work or create?

The proposed scenario seems unlikely to me. People would find substitutes. It might be quite similar to the way people would adapt if cash disappeared in the all-digital age. People would still want to do off-the-books transactions so some cash-equivalent like food or silver beads or standardized jewellery or something would become the norm.

I cannot see some form of mechanism for determining access to goods and services not existing.

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Money at it's root is just a very intelligent way to store work done today without needing to spend the proceeds of your work right away.

Someone needs a house built, but you currently don't need anything at all.
Without money, you would not build the house because you don't need anything.

With money, you're able to use the proceeds of building the house later, maybe when you're old and weak and unable to build anymore.

In my opinion, money is like the written word, it's a fundamental aspect of human society.

Where there's contention with money is how most governments print money which is actually the theft of our life on earth.
We trade the hours of our life for money, the governments print the same money which causes inflation which erases years of our work (life).

[mikikiki]

try surviving in the jungle all by yourself. that's the most primitive way without money

[Miner21]

There would still be some form of bartering i would imagine. Exchange would still need to take place