Considering that modern humans have been around for roughly 200-300’000 years but the oldest known form of money / standardized currency dates back only 3000-2500 bce, what would today look like in a alternate reality where the concept of money was never conceived? Like I guess some form of “the market” has always been around, but still… what if?
It seems to me markets without currency are rare and temporary, so I don’t see markets working in this world of yours. Only way I see this possible is when the tribe’s surplus was never claimed. In a myriad of different tribal constellations, having none that assigned the surplus stockpile seems very unlikely. So this world can only exist before central stockpiling it seems to me. A bit like the description of the Native Americans in Engels’ Family, Private Property and the State.