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The Problems of Barter
Dunbar ber's notion that barter doesn't exist is ridiculous. We still see barter existing to day, we've probably bartered at some point with some ber. But it doesn't happen precisely because of the problems of barter. If we lived in an economy of ten people with ten goods, then ner we could keep track of these goods and we could barter with them. As we go beyond that number, probably beyond 100, probably beyond100. You just want to exchange, and you want final settlement of the good. Its debt starts becoming very crappy money. So i see there's a chart of the human body behind yous. I presume you're a doctor,
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