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I think it's weird to believe that bartering would vanish (or be illegal in the case of this story) in a post-scarcity world. Resources are plentiful; what a person can do with those resources is still rare or even unique. They might not exchange money but I would imagine, for example, artists might trade their works to each other. Like a painter trading a portrait to a sculptor for a statue.
It wasn't the bartering that bothered the government, it was when the people created a monetary system using little plastic tokens that were normally used for meaningless bets on sports. I really wish I could find the original story.