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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Origins of Virtue
Trade is far, far older than agriculture. Pre agricultural people were trading a probably a hundred thousand years ago. The ability to exchange food seems to be perhaps the biological platform on which the idea of trade per se was able to evolve. Once you can share food in trade and enter into a reciprocal arrangement with regard to food, then it isn't that much of a leap to start do that with other commodities like stone axes or arrowsor or any implement of that sort.
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