Nick Szabo  🔑

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.

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.

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

"Society is social" wow there's a theory you can really pin down. "-)

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.

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.

just a thought: why not actually find out how intertribal trade worked in reality instead of lecturing others about what "must" have happened?

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.