open source on dotto tech and g4-tech
JoeHill
joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 26 00:10:01 UTC 2006
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:49:44 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Brockway got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
> As I understand it, anthropologists suspect that many (most?) ancient
> societies were gift economies.
Correct sir! A 'standard currency', contrary to what we are taught, was not
implemented to be a 'convenient means of exchange', but a 'convenient means of
control' by bureaucracies, and we got the idea from one of the oldest and most
complex bureaucracies in history: China (well, it wasn't called China at the
time...).
'Money', at least as we know it, serves a very important purpose for said
Bureaucracies: it makes it a lot easier to collect...wait for it...
Taxes!
Okay, oversimplification, but I ain't gonna write an essay.
For your evenings entertainment, might I suggest checking out what Wikipedia has
to say about 'alternative currencies', or Google 'flaxscript' ;)
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