i have long worked on the benefits of a barter economy.

However, what i found is that very few people have anything to barter.

Even factory workers don't have anything they can trade; so close, yet so far away.

So, how do we start a trading economy when most people have nothing to trade?

The problem is that most people have nothing but labor to offer.
Very few have the desire and the know how to build a factory.

And all of socialists writings ignore this important person.
Even in crony capitalism, these guys are found, wrung dry, and then discarded.

We really need to start protecting our inventors.