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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Replying to @richiekp101
Graeber used a very narrow definition of "money" that did not include a huge variety of well-documented stores of value and media of wealth transfer.
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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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Replying to @davidgraeber @richiekp101
Why are you raising the topic of "barter"? I'm talking about stores of value and media of wealth transfer, neither of which need to have anything to do with barter (especially not in the narrow sense in which you use that word).
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Numerical measurement and counting like 1-2-3-4-... (as opposed to visually mapping sets of objects) were not necessary for SoV or media of wealth transfer to evolve.
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If you define it that broadly and vaguely, then unit of account may have been practically universal. A better specified definition is needed.
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