On Mar 11, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> It's important to keep in mind that money is a relatively recent
> innovation in human societies. For the vast majority of our existence
> on this planet, humans have done quite nicely without currency, so
> there's certainly nothing natural or inevitable about currency-based
> economies.
Yeah, and we also went without indoor plumbing and electricity. The point is how do you have a complex industrial society without money? Maybe it's possible, I don't know. But I'd like someone to explain.
Some kind of money has been around for thousands of years, so this moneyless prehistory isn't really very relevant to anything today, is it?