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Bartering implies negotiation. Rather the payment is often voluntary and subjective. It is entirely possible to obtain everything you need to live without ever paying back those you owe. Similarly, you can give and give without anyone giving back to you. It is not the value of the goods or...

According to Caroline Humphrey, there is actually no anthropological or ethnographical evidence has ever shown that a pure barter economy has ever existed. Throughout history only credit and monetary systems have ever been seen. I think it is clear to most of us how our own market economies use...