Barter founders on the mutual coincidence of wants: you have chickens but need carpentry; the carpenter has no need for chickens. Beyond this practical friction, barter obscures value transparency and scales poorly, which is why every complex society invents money—making barter a revealing case study in why certain institutions emerge from rational necessity rather than arbitrary convention.
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