Started reading it too recently, only 2 chapters in, but love it so far. When he claimed that barter pretty much didn't exist (besides in highly specific circumstances), and the entire idea of “damn, I can't exchange one beer for three fish, because the fishmonger doesn't want beer, I wish somebody invented coins already” is bunk, I was like “no no no, this can't be”. I started googling elsewhere an indeed, there's very little evidence in anthropology, that barter was a widespread thing at all. Mind → blown.
Started reading it too recently, only 2 chapters in, but love it so far. When he claimed that barter pretty much didn't exist (besides in highly specific circumstances), and the entire idea of “damn, I can't exchange one beer for three fish, because the fishmonger doesn't want beer, I wish somebody invented coins already” is bunk, I was like “no no no, this can't be”. I started googling elsewhere an indeed, there's very little evidence in anthropology, that barter was a widespread thing at all. Mind → blown.