Zitat des Tages über Tausch / Barter:
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.