You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: The Story of Money: The Myth of Barter
I disagree that HG societies require the 'good will' of market societies (unless of course they're using violent force, which many did [see colonialism]), hunter-gatherers can live quite sustainably indefinitely, and did, considering the majority of human existence was as hunter-gatherers, but I do think without market exchange and especially some form of exchange medium, development is severely limited, in the same way it is limited without literacy or the wheel-axle.
Yes, I was refering to the ability to defend there way of life from outsiders, not their ability to be self sufficient. My point was that in the present day, HG societies only exist because market societies allow them to exist. As soon as it is discovered that the HGs are sitting on a valuble resource, they are pretty quick to be displaced or wiped out