A world without money.

[Ickalanda]

The biggest problem about not having money is that then there wouldn't be any way to label who has what and who is allowed to do what. If there was truly no money then people would just start hording everything to themselves to make their houses larger or have more valuables. Money solves this problem by giving everything a value and making you have to work in order to be able to receive a certain value of something. I find it hard to think of a world without money, the closest thing that there has been is in the old world of trading, but even then that is still the same concept, with nothing being free as you suggested in your first post.

It would be impossible to have everything be free because then all of the worlds resources would be used up immediately and there would be no accountability for anything at all. People would begin fighting over who could have what, this is not a world of infinite materials, after all.