I bookmarked it. I'll watch it when I get home. I think I've heard the argument somewhere before that the earliest form of money was actually debt-based currency rather than commodity money. That would certainly align with the clay tablet discussion. Plus, currencies like gold would have been difficult to use as money until technology emerged to refine them to a high purity.

This ties in with the Italian nation states each with their own coin and versions

We have gift economies for a hundred thousand years before money.

And all the early money systems were literally just barter.

Shells that you collect or shiny rocks or things you make from bits of leather or whatever else.

They weren't only used for means of exchange they were resources as well.

Why do you think the Euro is an experiment?

let me guess, he's on USAID payroll?

Yes, interesting! A friend sent me that last week. Fascinating coincidence

Writing systems evolved with agriculture, before anything you could actually call money that wasn't just barter.

The clay tablets which were invented much later than other writing systems were actually reusable, youd wet them and the clay became soft again.

The ones that were have found are mostly from the rubble of buildings that got destroyed by fire and just happened to cook the clay tablets without destroying them.

Much much much older examples of written language found carved into stone and painted inside caves. Everything that was not a cave painting kept out of the weather or carved into stone broke down over time.

For most of human history bartering did not happen between individuals, it happened between communities or families.

Within a community they had a gift economy, from each according to their ability and to each according to their need.

Even between seperate communities there was gift economies, the excess was simply shared.

With agriculture came more long term food storage, which made bartering between communities more popular, but before that if you had excess and no way to store it why wouldn't you just give it away? The gift economy strengthens social bonds, and mutual benefit between communities.

Proto language evolved to keep better track of seasons, essentially written language evolved from calendars and keeping track of time, way before anything you could call money.

Whether a culture created one before the other depended on that cultures needs and resources.

If everything was abundant all year round and you lived in paradise you didn't need to invent anything but did have a lot of spare time for creative and social pursuits.

If you lived somehow harsh you had insensitives to invent things that helped with survival.

This is also what David Greaber writes about in "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" plus about different kinds of money that existed throughout history. Quite interesting read.

What is implication of this on gold and bitcoin?

this is your second most based post after calling to legalize child porn possession ( to prevent Israel from blackmailing US politicians into Genociding Gaza )

i don't believe i ever said you are incapable of thinking for yourself ( if i did say it in a moment of anger, i apologize ). in any case what i really meant to say is that you didn't have enough perspective on nutrition to make sense out of it and thus you fell victim to establishment lies in that area of knowledge.

as for money, it being historically tied to state is not necessarily a reason to oppose bitcoin - if anything it is a reason to support bitcoin as the only thing that can free us from the state.

but i still don't believe in bitcoin AS INVESTMENT because there is simply nothing unique about it. Gold is 100% unique. In most applications it can only be replaced by Platinum which is even more expensive. But Bitcoin can be replaced by any other crypto.

that doesn't mean BTC won't keep going up, but it will only do so because people are stupid not because it has inherent value ( it doesn't ).

It doesn't explain this behaviour

https://fee.org/articles/how-a-fish-became-prison-currency/

He doesnt actually justify the claim in the title anywhere in the video, he just states it. It's not insensible but I think either he did not adequately explain it or the video was cut short.