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There isn't much evidence that bartering ever was the way people did business.

Lots of evidence for lending & borrowing though (debt).




indeed - bartering really isn't a sustainable thing, and like you mentioned debt ended up being heavily used to facilitate exchanges. said debt in many cases ended up being centrally facilitated. the rest of history.




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