Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Andrewism" channel.

This man giving us all the gift of a well-researched, well-produced and thought-provoking history lesson without the expectation of a direct or equivalent exchange. Nice.
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This is largely the point he makes. Equivalent exchanges arose in cities with temples and in long-distance or spontaneous transactions between strangers. Bear in mind that it's only very recently (as in, literally, 2007) that the majority of humans have lived in urban as opposed to rural communities. The point of this video is also to consider whether there are other ways this system could be scaled. I know the "C" word is verboten in many circles, but one need only look to Star Trek to imagine how a system of gift-giving could be extrapolated to a galactic scale when large pockets of it exist in post-scarcity conditions.
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@huveja9799 I mean, at a minimum, that there are no shortages of basic necessities--food, clothing, housing, medicine, education, electricity, etc.
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@kevincrady2831 Ex-physicist here. Sadly untrue--we're cut from the same cloth as economists, always making assumptions and simplifications, even when they don't necessarily map to the real world. That's why so many of us (myself included) spend time working in finance.
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 @EvonixTheGreatest Me and my spherical cow feel directly attacked. (it's okay--we deserve it)
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