Money. First question: What is it? Well so to begin with, we traded STUFF, we had stuff, they had stuff, we wanted some of their stuff, they wanted some of our stuff. So it was a barter deal--a little bit of monkey meat for some fish, a ceramic bowl for a bracelet, a shrunken head for some dessicated testicles of some champion opponent, a macho man who fell to the lances of somebody younger and stronger.
Well, there was a problem of exchange: Is a shrunken head equal to a pair of testicles--what if you only had one testicle? Where you gonna get half of a shrunken head?
You need a mode of exchange, some kind of money. Preferably, something that is infinitely divisible. Like an ounce of gold or something else.
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