The Truth About the Birth of Agriculture, the Truth About the Birth of Money

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Anthropologists like david greber in his book on debt. Is like economists have made up this myth about where money came from, but as an anthropologist, a tell you that it didn't happen. We've gone and looked at every society this never, once has your barter turned into money,. et cetera, a. Amias approaches e historian is to think, well, did it ever happen? You know, do we have a natural experiment of bankers going on strike? And then you'll see just how important we arerat.

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