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Originally Posted by NichePay - StuartD
I've lived just fine without seeing a dollar... lasted for a couple years. Yes, things I did or got had a monetary value, but that doesn't mean that it had anything to do with money.
For your argument to work, you have to say that "value is everything", not money.
Bartering was around long before money, it had nothing to do with money but people wanted to get equal value out of their trades.
How could it have been about money if money wasn't invented yet?
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Just because the dollar wasnt invented yet doesnt mean that currency didnt exist. What is the bartner system? A form of currency, the same thing as paper money, metals and other items which value is placed upon.
Now, while YOU may have been able to live off the barter system i'm still willing to bet that it was money which was sustaining you and the person you bartered with. He earned it and you payed him back...where would you have been if he was in the same situtation as yourself?