Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 7 months agoWe live in the future!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square304fedilinkarrow-up11.76Karrow-down163
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minus-squareTavarinlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoWell if you read it you failed to understand it, because it clearly discusses barter systems relating to debt, not currency.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months agodebt is a currency.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·7 months agostay in school.
minus-squareTavarinlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-27 months agoGo to school. How you’ve deluded yourself into thinking bartering and money are the same thing is beyond me. If I pay off my debt to a friend with a bottle of whiskey, is whiskey now money? No, it’s called bartering, and it’s an entirely different concept.
Well if you read it you failed to understand it, because it clearly discusses barter systems relating to debt, not currency.
debt is a currency.
Nope, not the same thing.
stay in school.
Go to school.
How you’ve deluded yourself into thinking bartering and money are the same thing is beyond me.
If I pay off my debt to a friend with a bottle of whiskey, is whiskey now money?
No, it’s called bartering, and it’s an entirely different concept.