IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 19 hours agois the barter system the peak of economics?message-squaremessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up121arrow-down1message-squareis the barter system the peak of economics?IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 19 hours agomessage-square39linkfedilinkfile-text
you would actually need to contribute to receive, and you couldnt just move money around contributing nothing
minus-squareartifex@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 hours agoMaybe bartering as the primary system, but there are definitely historically and currently many examples of “real” bartering (like in-kind work, or even the nonsense going on with trading out datacenter capacity right now, I’d argue)
minus-squareSummzashi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·15 hours agoThis post is definitely about bartering in a primary sense though
Maybe bartering as the primary system, but there are definitely historically and currently many examples of “real” bartering (like in-kind work, or even the nonsense going on with trading out datacenter capacity right now, I’d argue)
This post is definitely about bartering in a primary sense though