Comment on Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?
crashfrog@lemm.ee 5 days ago
There’s actually no such thing as humanity without money; it’s as key to our collective cognition as language.
Comment on Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?
crashfrog@lemm.ee 5 days ago
There’s actually no such thing as humanity without money; it’s as key to our collective cognition as language.
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The Salish Tribes existed in the PacNW for over 13,000 years without money.
crashfrog@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Weren’t they the ones that used shells as money?
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Wampum was used by Eastern Costal tribes as a storytelling aid.
In the Salish Tribes, dentalium shell necklaces were used as a status symbol/indication of social rank. Some tribes used the necklaces as a type of currency, but I’ve only heard the “some tribes did this” part; never anything about which specific tribes used dentalium as currency.
Obviously, anything that holds perceived value can be traded.
Source: went to junior high in a school that taught two full years of Haudenosaunee (also called Iroquois) history.
Salish source: I’ve been a volunteer naturalist in the Puget Sound for eight years with an annual training requirement, with entire days allocated to history of the original Salish tribe for the area where we’re working.
crashfrog@lemm.ee 4 days ago
If trade occurs, then by definition they have currency; there are no barter economies.