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How Much do You Know about Money? (Conversation Program)

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The Origins of Proto Money

Everybody kind of like we everybody has the things that they have but they can barter them for other things. Right. So I say carrots and potatoes. I say my chicken is worth myChicken is worth five potatoes or something like that. We agree on a rate and we just we trade. Yeah. And what happens if you don't have anything? What happens if all of my potatoes and carrots like got drowned because there was a huge rain and there's none?! You can't save your potatoes year after year. For a year when you do have. There is obviously some problems with bartering. Then we move on to proto money. And this is things like like Adam I have like

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