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ID-3 Origin of the Species. November 26th, 1985
Origin of the Species.
A simple history of money systems.
We have first to discover what money is.
Most of us know as much of money as the fish knows of water.
It is ironic that we know so little about something that affects
us so much.
Particularly since money is a purely human cultural contrivance,
with no counterpart in the natural world.
It is a system that has evolved over millenia, through a variety of
political and social conditions.
On the way it has acquired attributes which may have more to do
with responses to problems in the past than to opportunities in
the present.
It is surely inconceivable that such a random concoction should
represent the optimally efficient means to achieve our economic
ends.
It is surely possible that cheaper, more efficient and more
responsive systems could be derived.
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