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    1. Elaine  🐤 🇮🇨‏Verified account @eiaine 4 Apr 2018
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      Elaine  🐤 🇮🇨 Retweeted David Graeber

      As long as people define money using a list of observed roles, anyone can rewrite the history of money to suit any agenda. “Money must serve as a medium of exchange, unit of account, and standard of deferred payment -- therefore money originated as debt!”https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/981680064390664193 …

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      David Graeber @davidgraeber
      Replying to @NickSzabo4 @richiekp101
      really? What are some money-like objects that I ignore that either 1. Arise from barter or 2. Act differently than the forms of money I discuss & describe?
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    2. Elaine  🐤 🇮🇨‏Verified account @eiaine 4 Apr 2018
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      These mammoth ivory beads from 32,000 BC were only used as a store and display of wealth, not a medium of exchange. Ipso facto, not money.pic.twitter.com/Wi9RBtqysa

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    3. David Graeber‏ @davidgraeber 4 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @eiaine

      more importantly, what possible purpose would be served by defining sports cars and Picassos as "money" - I mean, other than trying to win an argument?

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    4. Elaine  🐤 🇮🇨‏Verified account @eiaine 4 Apr 2018
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      by broadening your definition of money, you get a more inclusive history of similar objects that could have evolved into modern money!

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    6. David Graeber‏ @davidgraeber 5 Apr 2018
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      you're talking to an anthropologist. No anthropologist defines "any enduring valuable" as "money" even if not used to measure or exchange other things because to do so would bring absurd results for reasons I already pointed out

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    7. Elaine  🐤 🇮🇨‏Verified account @eiaine 5 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @davidgraeber @ColbySerpa

      maybe it seems absurd to you because it doesn't fit your preconceived notion of how money should be? believe it or not, there were societies and civilizations very different from our own that used "money" to serve different, but not unrelated, purposes.

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    8. Elaine  🐤 🇮🇨‏Verified account @eiaine 5 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @eiaine @davidgraeber @ColbySerpa

      wait a minute, i'm talking to an anthropologist! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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    9. David Graeber‏ @davidgraeber 5 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @eiaine @ColbySerpa

      now please learn some anthro before lecturing strangers on the subject

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    10. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 5 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @davidgraeber @eiaine @ColbySerpa

      This definition-mongering style of argument is akin to arguments like "we don't define homo erectus as human, therefore we can safely ignore homo erectus in accounts of human evolution."

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      Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 5 Apr 2018
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      Replying to @NickSzabo4 @davidgraeber and

      In these definition-mongering accounts of money, beads (for example) can apparently magically go from being nothing like money at all to being fully money by the mere act of transferring them for one kind of purpose instead of another.

      8:25 AM - 5 Apr 2018
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