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revenant · F
Human nature is not communist anyway, not in the sense you mean. Commerce has always existed and so has competition in all fields.
Immediate family, extended family, tribe have always been the motivations of human beings.
Immediate family, extended family, tribe have always been the motivations of human beings.
Gloomy · F
@revenant Anthropologists gradually fanned out into the world and began directly observing how economies where money was not used (or anyway, not used for everyday transactions) actually worked. What they discovered was an at first bewildering variety of arrangements, ranging from competitive gift-giving to communal stockpiling to places where economic relations centered on neighbors trying to guess each other’s dreams. What they never found was any place, anywhere, where economic relations between members of community took the form economists predicted: “I’ll give you twenty chickens for that cow.” Hence in the definitive anthropological work on the subject, Cambridge anthropology professor Caroline Humphrey concludes, “No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests that there never has been such a thing”
revenant · F
@Gloomy and Ms Humphrey is a very reliable and knowledgeable human is she ?
i would say people did just like they are still doing nowadays : helping each other. I will help you with your land and in return you will give me a cow or whatever.
People have been doing exchanges of services and goods forever.*
i would say people did just like they are still doing nowadays : helping each other. I will help you with your land and in return you will give me a cow or whatever.
People have been doing exchanges of services and goods forever.*