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Economic anthropologist George Dalton emphatically concurs: “Barter, in the strict sense of moneyless exchange, has never been a quantitatively important or dominant model or transaction in any past or present economic system about which we have hard information.”8 The only instances of barter, says Dalton, were for petty, infrequent, or emergency transactions—just as is the case today.
Sacred Economics, Revised
Charles Eisenstein
Quality, Then Quantity [At First, Do Less, Better — “Scaling” Is Not the Answer]
How to Build a Happy Customer Creating Engine With Paid Traffic
tinylittlebusinesses.com
A serpent, metaphorically speaking, will inevitably appear. Even the most assiduous of parents cannot fully protect their children, even if they lock them in the basement, safely away from drugs, alcohol and internet porn. In that extreme case, the too-cautious, too-caring parent merely substitutes him or herself for the other terrible problems of life. This is the great Freudian Oedipal nightmare.49 It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator)
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