If they (and you) read up on what travelers, missionaries, & ethnographers actually witnessed & recorded of recently contacted cultures, you will find that SoV & medium of wealth transfer long preceded record-keeping. See https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/954225789129469952 … & refs in the linked articles.https://twitter.com/mikejcasey/status/981141578285805569 …
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at first I was taught that money was invented to replace barter/solve coincidence of wants problem, then I was taught that was wrong and it was actually a means of tracking debts, now you're saying it is something else
The coincidence of wants part is true, if we include things like "coincidence of wants with somebody dying and leaving you their stuff" and "coincidence of wants with somebody owing you a fine or tribute."
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