judges and juries usually are of course unless your lawyer is one of those incorruptible devoted to duty space elves the only incentive that advocate had then for doing a good job is reputation and while that might be enough that also raised another common example of just money by another name in this case your social reputation now reputation is not the same as money but has a lot of parallels and a lot of modern marketing is just reputation building for a brand name it is also critical to exchanges in small groups like tribes or clans where favors and social status are the primary currency though again that's getting a bit broad with the term money reputation is also hard to do math and accounting with though many a marketing firm would love to be able to change that it's probably worth asking if that is fair though if we really should just be using those broadest definitions for money in contemplating a society without it and to that i just say your mileage may vary we have no universal definition for money and nobody has some exclusive right to set that definition either nobody anointed a given dictionary or economics professor the exclusive right to set an ironclad definition across all time languages and cultures for what is and is not money or any other term for that matter so if someone wants to use a definition so broad that it would include an accounting chart for intra-family activities and exchanges then i can't say that's wrong nor crise NUMBER_TOKEN was wrong if someone wanted to limit that definition specifically only to voluntary exchanges of goods and services between entities i just point out that in the former you now need to be able to justify a parent hugging their kid as an economic transaction and in the latter you presumably need to be justifying paying taxes as a voluntary exchange which requires some caution so you don't accidentally also include getting mugged as a voluntary exchange for today's purposes we will assume there's some definition of money in there which is not so broad as to include every human exchange of any kind nor so restrictive it starts ignoring obvious examples of money we also bypass systems too small or primitive to bother with creating a medium of exchange in accounting for instance you can argue that many civilizations did not have money they had border and this is true but hardly indicative of some great enlightenment but rather of just not having developed currency as a technology or practice yet when their chieftain or warlord roars up to your village gate demanding NUMBER_TOKEN wagon loads of grain or her torch your town down that's not enlightened by any standard other than maybe the klingons and i don't think him demanding assigned promissory note for the grain or its equivalent in other goods alters the morality merely the sophistication i hate to keep picking on star trek but in it the federation is said to have no money while folks like the captains are vaguely shown to have far more influence resources and power than the average person we are told that humanity has evolved beyond accumulating things to corporate card in the episode the neutral zone talking to a stock broker who had been frozen for centuries and revived a lot has changed in the past NUMBER_TOKEN years people are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things we have eliminated hunger want the need for possessions we've grown out of our infancy and yet we see picard and everyone else repeatedly valuing things and having prized possessions i'm also not sure what that cultural growth is to be less driven by
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