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Re:Death in the clouds: The problem of bodies on Everest (2015) by weberc2 on Saturday May 27, 2017 @09:59AM (#14430069)
We know that there were merchants and people bartered to exchange goods and services. The first written records in many societies are often ledgers of royal wealth transactions. Every prominent historian believes that capitalism is the original economic system.
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Re:Death in the clouds: The problem of bodies on Everest (2015) by jessaustin on Saturday May 27, 2017 @12:23PM (#14430712)
"Royal wealth transactions", the foundation of capitalism! They must have competed for serfs and slaves in a voluntary market!
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Re:Death in the clouds: The problem of bodies on Everest (2015) by weberc2 on Saturday May 27, 2017 @10:19PM (#14432851)
So you're upset that the Assyrian peasantry didn't invent accounting?
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