Is It Possible to Organize People Without Money or Bureaucracy

The modern western world is largely organized by corporations. The production of almost every necessary and luxury good is carried out by a corporate organization, and all the planning is done using money as a symbol of "the good". Money and prices of goods end up being defined by that mode of planning and organization, so "the market" for things ends up being set by that system rather than by a "free market".

Most of the posts in this blog point out problems with this approach. The financial system, and the corporate system are mostly systems of control of human activity and they are at least equally about maintaining a hierarchy of people from the equivalent of modern day dukes and barons down to peasants, as they are methods for organizing people for productive activities. Also, using money as a representation of "wealth" has cheapened everything that's not money, e.g. the natural world. So in the 19th century, for example, settlers of the newly opened frontiers of the USA all but obliterated the natural world, and today in China, factories pollute the air, water and land of that country to pursue money tokens that managers and workers can exchange for luxury items.

Sub-cultures within the United States exist outside the financial system for the most part. The Amish are one example. Prior to the centralization of the banking system and widespread industrialization in the United States most people lived outside the money/financial system and conducted business in terms of credit agreements and in-kind trades, e.g. chicken eggs for flour.

I have the sense that we've come full circle in the modern system. The credit that's extended to corporations like Tesla, for example, seems pretty worthless in real world terms. The project of electrifying cars, building smart cities, and new infrastructure for self-driving vehicles seems pretty stupid and uninspiring to many.

Is it possible to do something different and have a different basis for civilization that's more aligned with the natural world? One of the really interesting questions I've thought about in recent years is: are natural systems more efficient and "productive" than agricultural systems of man? It is quite possible that's the case. If that's true, then agriculture, as currently practiced is a dismal failure and our civilizations are really a sort of millstone around our necks.