Basically: Yes, but you're still talking about investments, capital and economy. The risk you mention is purely a financial risk.
While finance is not the 'trademark', so to speak, of capitalism alone, it is an integrated part of capitalism.
I get the feeling you propose that 'money was always there', but that simply isn't true. Currency came along with early civilizations, sure, but it did not come first. Anyway, the existence of 'trading vouches'/money by itself is irrelevant. It's the distribution of the power and the fact that money (in our society) allow piling-up of power that is the question here, I think.
As I pointed out in one of the previous posts, a 'local' outside-capitalism society is a utopia, because you will, as you also point out, need goods and services not provided in your neighbourhood. You can certainly survive, but you cannot have the society evolve technologically. For this, you need a similar society everywhere those needed goods and services are produced -> internationalism.
(digression: ) Chronologically: Civilization rose when agriculture became efficient enough to support non-farmers. Then, and only then, could the specialization begin.
To swap occurences' place in time leads to the absurd.
How could humans evolve technologically when advanced agriculture happened in 'the wrong time'? They did evolve, that's for sure.
Social evolution does not move in a steady pace or in leaps and bounds. It moves in both ways, alternating then simultanously, backwards and forward. It's a mess.
But it is a fact that humans had evolved socially and tecnologically before anyone thought of classes/power/money.
And they did great, too.
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You're right. We cannot go back, neither do we want to. But that was never an issue. Points are:
1. There is land. Check.
2. Nature has no concience, thus is unable to demand a sacrifice for us using the land. Check.
3. There are resources. Check
4. See 2 applied to resources. .....Check
5. There is knowledge. Check
6. We are physically capable of harvesting/providing both goods and services. Check
7. We know how to get what we need. Check
8. Our numbers exploded when we got together and worked together to reach our goals. Check.
9. No out-of-this-world/divine obstacle to prevent us from getting what we want. Check
I don't see why we would cease to exist as a technologically advanced species if we abolished money as a means of power and a means to get more money (see the pointless circle here).
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