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Money 2.0: Emotional Currency

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The Clay Tablets of Ancient Mesopotamia

The clay tablets that they pulled out of the box were used five thousand years ago in ancient mesopotamia. They were used to keep records of obligations. When people lived in small groups, monitoring ations was easy. But as human societies grew larger, people needed a way to systematically keep track of who owed what to whom.

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