Maybe it's a bit of both. One of the reasons why we've become prosperous compared to past generations is the individual aspect that allowed people to give their best work and get rewarded for it. But this system for the most part nowadays is broken, the gap between the haves and have-nots has increased considerably, also. I think of a post-monetary world as a world where modern day forms of money may become obsolete and be replaced by something else, maybe credits. But the means of control, as in controlling the population will still be on the hards of the very few who are servants/puppets of the powers that be. Maybe the means of control will be sophisticated set of technologies that act as a giant basic group where every aspect of human life operates :)