

I asked you what you think they’d look like, and you’ve only repeated that “they don’t work have never worked and will never work” without answering my question.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/20463826 https://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/gift-giving-middle-ages-new-exhibition-getty/
Your argument is like an 18th-century commentator saying federalism would never work to the scale of the thirteen colonies—it underestimates what has advanced. Whereas the federalism-skeptics underestimated advances in checks and balances (whose problem today is IMO with one branch just abnegating its power) from enlightenment thought and the consolidated power of the legislature developed through British Parliament, you underestimate modern social connection and networking. Sure, there are deep divisions, but within those separated groups are bonds, the strength of which on such a large scale never before seen.
tell that to https://p.lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/lemmy.dbzer0.com/40822471 :
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