There is plenty of value that isn't exchanged for money.
There's child bearing, cooking, cleaning, friendship, neighbors sharing tools, neighbors watching for thieves, neighbors watering your garden while you're away, wise old people giving wisdom, extended family members babysitting children on date night, friendship, love letters, singing Christmas carols, helping someone in an emergency, someone playing with you on a sports team, someone playing against you on a sports team, helping a friend when they fail, helping someone study for a test, defending your little brother from a bully and much much much much more.
I feel sorry for you if you think the world and society should be reduced to being only transactional. That's not a world I want to live in. Not all work can be scaled and commodified to create surplus (see the above list). Productivity and surplus increases through improved efficiency can only be applied to a portion of the real economy. Those sectors are what capitalists prefer to talk about and spend their energy developing. There are people, particularly women, who are busy doing the important work in a society and are less able to participate in your aggressive and adversarial economic fight to the death.
The lowering birth rates in our society is likely caused by your putting a money price on everything. The work that women prefer to do has been devalued under capitalism even though nothing else could be more important.
Yes there are basic aspects of life & human connection that give people all sorts of meaning & fulfillment, without involving money. But all cooperative voluntary interactions do generally produce a surplus or a profit of some kind. If you cook with another person the profit is probably in the enjoyment you get from the interaction beyond just the food you might have produced on your own. Every voluntary human interaction takes place because both sides believe there is some benefit or value in the interaction, whether material, emotional, spiritual, now or in the future, people generally do things because they think those things will improve life in some way.
Many of those things you listed are valuable because they are rare, or because they require someone's time & effort & energy which are the scarce values that a sound money is supposed to represent. Trade is cooperative & mutually beneficial. In a free market, people get rich to your benefit, not at your expense. If a man has earned a billion sats it's because he created much more than a billion sats worth of value for others & did not consume for himself. You can't eat money. He created real valuable goods & services, & decided to hold only an abstraction which is a promise that he can consume something at some point in the future, in exchange for the real wealth he produced.
People are unable to live the way they want today & unable to plan for the future or have families because their tool for economic coordination (money) is being corrupted & has been increasingly so for the last 100+ years. Money is half of every trade. It touches everything. When money becomes corrupt, society becomes corrupt.
Look dude I hear you and I understand your point of view. However, I would prefer you use 'AnCap' or 'Anarcho-Capitalist'. If you say 'Anarchist' it confuses the normies into thinking I believe something that I don't. An 'Anarchist' has been portrayed as a 'bomb thrower' and 'Anarchy' has been portrayed as 'chaos' (intentionally) for too long. Now we are having our name stolen. I'm starting to think there's a non-zero chance that AnCaps stealing the word 'Anarchy' is a pysop. True Anarchism has many sets of powerful enemies.
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