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The one thing that's always avoided in these discussions is that Utopia isn't a beautiful paradise where everyone lives in harmony. Utopia is a Spartan environment where everyone works hard, and is given their lot to survive. Money is not an object and is not desired, because each has what they need--not what they desire. Desire is lost. Utopia is a Stalinist dreamscape, where property doesn't exist, everything is warehoused, and slavery is a feature of everyday life. I don't know how More's Utopia ever became as desirable as Eden, but obviously whoever made this leap had never read even a cursory synopsis of it. I guess my point is that dystopia needn't be a word, because Utopia resembles it remarkably.