There’s a reason that pretty much every complex society moved away from it: it doesn’t scale. It works fine enough for a small tribe that produces basic things like food and clothing. It doesn’t work for an industrialized society of millions of people where production of things like electronics requires hundreds of different resources and production steps.
I’m just going to spam this fact in this thread, but there is no evidence that bartering has ever been a stepping stone to a currency-based economy in any culture. Bartering only arises in cultures that are accustomed to money, but run into issues with currency supply (deflation, hyperinflation, etc).
So no cultures have moved away from bartering to currency, they’ve moved back to currency.
There’s a reason that pretty much every complex society moved away from it: it doesn’t scale. It works fine enough for a small tribe that produces basic things like food and clothing. It doesn’t work for an industrialized society of millions of people where production of things like electronics requires hundreds of different resources and production steps.
I’m just going to spam this fact in this thread, but there is no evidence that bartering has ever been a stepping stone to a currency-based economy in any culture. Bartering only arises in cultures that are accustomed to money, but run into issues with currency supply (deflation, hyperinflation, etc).
So no cultures have moved away from bartering to currency, they’ve moved back to currency.