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Humankind’s Hopeful History with Rutger Bregman

Factually! with Adam Conover

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

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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