Comment on Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?
crashfrog@lemm.ee 1 month agoNo ethnographic studies have shown that any present or past society has used barter without any other medium of exchange or measurement, and anthropologists have found no evidence that money emerged from barter.
What would be an example of the barter economy you’re certain exists? How do they overcome the need for double coincidence?
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I misspoke, and you raise a good point. I meant gift economies, and that error is on me. And those are pretty well-documented. I’ll stick to my firsthand experiences: