Tokens value
Maja Vujinovic on Quartz explains that, through the tokens, we are returning to the past. The global financial system started with bartering, and we are now adopting a similar structure on a digitized platform. These tokens do not need to have value assigned by some centralized, external entity: they can just be used in defined, specific, distinct forms of trade within a community of peers.
Everything does not have to have a price because there are other skills, goods, and services we can provide that are of equal value to money. Token economics, the article author concludes, could fix the relationship between people and money.