How The Barter Myth Harms Us
Let’s dive right into the debate on the origins of money, the reality of pre-money exchange, the actual uses of barter through history, and how all of this has affected our imagination of the present and the future.
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Sources & Resources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2016/06/08/the-myth-of-the-myth-of-the-myth-of-barter-and-the-return-of-the-armchair-ethnologists/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money
Debt: The First 5000 Years