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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true, respekt, but "unforgeable costliness and trust minimization" don't "explain the unique two-collectible kula cycle", programmatic language is 'costly' analytically. our only supposition is that society is social, not based on 'good contracts' between 1:1 all the way up&down
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theres 100x rich social theories to choose from, form marx's social relations to Mauss's social contracts to latour's association of collectives, what's impoverishing and damaging is asocial or asi theory; atomism, self-preservation and paranoia.
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In fact, trust minimizing institutions and technologies are crucial to expanding human relationships beyond the clan level. Much of this moral primitivism you cite, when applied to much larger societies, would or have lead to barbarity, e.g. of communist states.
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just a thought: why not actually find out how intertribal trade worked in reality instead of lecturing others about what "must" have happened?
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That's not a very credible thought, since I have studied that and much else related to early stores of value and media of wealth transfer. You might want to try actually reading what I have written instead of attacking strawmen.
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Aargh, just reading this ”conversation” quickly reminded me, why we are pointing the ultimate weapons of mass destruction on each other. Immidiately stop. Do you have any idea how badly we need you guys to have a real conversation? ”Really smart people never understand anything.”
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well I'm happy to go back to the original point if you like I came in in the middle. What was it?
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For decades my interest has been, besides a scientific curiosity about what really happened, technological, i.e. how to design better forms of money. That branched into figuring out what objects were used for money or similar & why they were designed the way they were.
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