The big conundrum is objective vs subjective "value" - what a 30k/yr salaried person spends $100 on one day can be the same thing that the billionaire spends $100 on, but the subjective value of what the $100 paid for means much more to the less wealthy person. The problem (as I see it) with a purely resources-based system is that there's no significant motivating factor to create, innovate, or otherwise make significant strides toward making things better.

My personal philosophies would take many paragraphs that I neither feel like writing nor would anyone read. Suffice it to say it makes sense to socialize some things: military, police, government, emergency services, health care, things like that. I also don't feel like true laissez faire capitalism can flourish without exploiting people and/or resources, so I'm a fan of limited government regulation. I just don't think in the past several thousands of years of recorded history, we've come up with much else that is both effective and palatable to a society.