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Old 01-04-2024, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox View Post
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I suspect there was a lot of resistance when cash first came in

You are expecting to exchange your chicken for a pair of shoes and the cobbler wants to give you round pieces of metal as change instead of some carrots? I don't think so!

Plus ça change...
No, most didn’t have cash back then. Bartering was trading for commodities, still goes on today in back woods that most of us has no clue what hard times are.