Re: MD True Libertarians Please Stand Up

[Thracian Bard]

Dear Colleagues,   Gerhard Wrote: ...What kind of value has money / economics? I think I would say that money has a social value, and should be regarded as a method for the society to function and has noting to do with a intelectual level of quality.    In response, I would progress one step further by suggesting that any social value that money seems to have is purely artificial. For evidence I would argue that many successful tribal societies flourished for millennia without even the concept of money. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, with one exception - the rise of the Bourgeoisie in middle Europe, money was almost exclusively used by the privileged class to negotiate among themselves, and with other nations to exact concessions, wage war, arrange marriages, etc... while 95% or more of the populations of these societies, conducted trade and paid taxes through the barter of crops, livestock, furs, meats, libations, services, textiles, and, to a lesser extent, land.   Regards!   The Bard