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


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Replying to @eiaine @ColbySerpa
yes & you clearly think you're making anthropological points but you're not, you're just making circular arguments. No anthropologist thinks Sungir beads were "money" just because they're durable & were (presumably) considered valuable
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Replying to @davidgraeber @ColbySerpa
oh, my mistake. i thought anthropology was supposed to be a science, not a dogma. btw you used to recognize these objects as money back in 2001, but maybe you've changed your mind since then:pic.twitter.com/Tvm4yLZUkd
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Replying to @eiaine @ColbySerpa
you think this CONTRADICTS my later argument about social currencies???? God where would I even start? The arrogance of some people is just extraordinary.
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This thread isn't about your theories of social currencies.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @davidgraeber and
nor is it about your vision of world history and compounding fallacies; you can't just pillage the ethnographic record to create a Misesian diagram, over and over again.
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Replying to @opensorceguinea @davidgraeber and
That's not what I'm doing, but even if it was why could I not? The record of traveler, missionary, and ethnographic accounts is not and should never be considered the monopoly of only certain specific academic ideologies.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @davidgraeber and
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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They do go quite far towards explaining it, actually.
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