root@lemmy.wtf to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 days agois the barter system the peak of economics?message-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-squareis the barter system the peak of economics?root@lemmy.wtf to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
you would actually need to contribute to receive, and you couldnt just move money around contributing nothing
minus-squareartifex@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days 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-up4·5 days 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