What do you mean no one produced nothing and no one earned anything? This is pure stupidity. It's right there in the fucking story: * The butcher produced meat for the hotelier * The pig farmer produced a pig for the butcher * The feed supplier produced feed for the pig farmer * The prostitute provided sex to the feed supplier * The hotel owner provided a room to the prostitute Money is simply a system of value, and nothing else. All this story "proves" is that everyone's goods and services they had provided to each other was of equal value. Please leave economics to the professionals.