How The Barter Myth Harms Us [15:09]

Invidious link: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=W-gdHrINyMU

Jul 12, 2023

Let’s dive right into the debate on the origins of money, the reality of pre-money exchange, the actual uses of barter through history, and how all of this has affected our imagination of the present and the future.

Sources & Resources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2016/06/08/the-myth-of-the-myth-of-the-myth-of-barter-and-the-return-of-the-armchair-ethnologists/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money

Debt: The First 5000 Years