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by sdenton4 3809 days ago
Read graeber. He this fallacious just so story quite thoroughly. in the old times happens pretty much only between tribes, in tense circumstances, not within them. Within a tribe, purposely ambiguous debt systems tend to be used. Also, there's a strong argument that money derives from ceremonial goods used to track the exchange of human lives, in marriage, murder, our slavery.