Money is a very dangerous tool (it promotes psychopaths to power), and We have the tech to eliminate it.  Trade (accounting for Our energy added into a community) made sense when Human energy was scarce, compared to what was needed...  But now...  Well I have a video that explains it.

And yes, there have been societies that lived without money, but the key was that They lived in abundance.  They were happy, playful, loving and caring societies.  Then the "western world" intruded and it all deteriorated.