Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 11 months agoCommerce is fine, greed is not. OP missed that distinction.
Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 11 months agoCommerce is fine, greed is not. OP missed that distinction.
ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Commerce != currency
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Currency is a natural evolution of commerce. Direct barter only works if the person selling what you need wants something you have.
Say you want to buy flowers. If the florist wants shoes and you only have bread or hammers to spare, then tough luck.
Any large society cannot function with such a clunky way to exchange goods/services. Currency is merely a proxy that allows both sides to trade their goods using a tool they both value similarly. Hell, some civilisations used giant boulders as currency… it’s hardly a new concept.