Is this what the invention of money felt like the first time around?
Urg: Don't listen to Grg, seashells are the real money
Grg: Yeah right, are you going to listen to the guy hyping chunks of salt?
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I'm guessing it's easier when there's a centralized power/authority?
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Thag and his people are Cowrie Shell Maximalists, don't pay attention to them.
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Pretty sure that when sumerian priest-kings started actually letting people carry silver around rather than moving notional silver in spreadsheets nobody was terribly concerned about it not being gold.
Plus, since the only ones with coinage were soldiers, peasants didn't argue.
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