No system of exchange is without problems. For certain people and certain times in our lives competitive or boss and worker type situations are desirable. Ironically, governments which have attempted to force this ideal upon their people have failed miserably. We in the West, of course, have our own problems remaining free of manipulation and exploitation. In our part of the world there is a mass-media fueled mania for consumer junk, and a growing trend for big business and big government to dominate the individual.
Friendly exchange is a worthy ideal for a society.
My suspicion, though, is that qualitative changes in a society generally proceed best from small independent groups at the bottom rather than manipulation from the top. Individual communities and small groups can best explore friendly forms of exchange. And so long as we are free to believe what we will, we are able to practice our beliefs, and what we choose to believe is the only real limit to what we can be.