In the highlands of new guinea, people used a big shell to mark relationships. It's kind of like an nended i o u, right? If i give you this big shell thing, then that implies for us, but also for everyone around us, that we have a bond. So there's a with the story, and the problem is that it runs into some facts.
What’s the point of money? The answer might seem obvious: we need it to get paid for our work and to buy the things we need. But there’s also a deeper way to look at the role of money in our lives. This week in our Money 2.0 series, we revisit a favorite 2020 episode for an anthropologist’s take on the origin story of money. What if the cash and coins we carry are not just tools for transactions, but manifestations of human relationships?
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