In a barter economy, money is unnecessary, for mainstream view. Soi enos it's very difficult to pin down the exact origin of money. But what i view it as is that we really did have a society in which tracking reciprocity was important. The other big element of money is it allows us to coordinate economic activity with people we don't know or trust around the globe.

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