Reject bartering, embrace gift economy
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TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 5 months ago
Reject currency, embrace bartering
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
xkbx@startrek.website 5 months ago
Gift me 1 million dollars
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’ll embrace bartering if you give me 400 carrots and 2000 potatoes.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 5 months ago
I have around ~100kg of potatoes in the basement… im not sure how many single units that is
Carrots will probably be harder, our garden doesn’t grow that many :3
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Ok I’ll take the potatoes for now and accept and IOU for the carr…wait a minute
SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 months ago
My dude jumping right ahead to futures.
cattywampas@lemm.ee 5 months ago
We already use a barter system. We exchange our goods and services for other goods and services. Money is just a medium for when a direct exchange isn’t practical or possible.
rmuk@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Yeah, my response to this argument is always the same: I work in IT, how do I barter for potatoes? If you’re a potato farmer, how many potatoes is a hip transplant worth? Maybe assigning worth to things with an abstract unit isn’t such a terrible idea after all…
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Also how do I save up perishables like potatoes for a big purchase? Do I have to set up a potato payment plan? What happens when I need IT services, but my profession is teacher and the IT guy doesn’t need my services, so I have to source something he needs from someone who needs my services to get his services? What if I can’t do my job without his services? Shit gets way more complicated without a uniform non-perishable national currency, fiat or otherwise.