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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3859211" data-attributes="member: 7280">I was under the impression that we had no coin and that everything of any real importance was done more or less communally rather than a strict system of barter that would lend itself to interest. Since we have no contact with other people, it would seem that such a strict system would be out of place - while various people might not like each other as much other people even the idea that there's no rigorous marriage contracting means that there's little or no estate issues yet when people die. That too seems to suggest we're all a happy bunch of primeval agrarian communists <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Once you've got interest and a more codified barter system you've got usury, which usually means that you have to have a stronger government in there somewhere to keep your happy villagers from killing each other.I just saw it as an anachronism that I wanted to poke at to see if it twisted away like a snake. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>