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by cortesoft 4141 days ago
This was one of the worst parts of the article (there were lots of bad parts). The fact that different people place different values on the same object is WHY bartering works at all. If there was a specific value for every object, and everyone agreed on exactly what that value was, then no one would ever trade anything.

I feel like the author of this post does not understand basic economic theory.