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Again, most of your sources aren't addressing what we are talking about. You want to flex about barter? Ok. Doesn't matter to what we are talking about. If social credit only works in small high trust societies (and not large civilisations), what the fuck is the USD? Now you have a tangible assert corresponding to the credit which is enforced by law enforcement. This is not social credit system we see in early societies, where there was usually not a tangible asset attached to it and the onus to enforce was basically on everyone. E.g.: "Unk was being 'stingy' with his catch after we shared last winter, so we will share less with him now" Mediums of exchange and barter never stepped into fill any role. I don't think you know what a medium of exchange is The state had issued state-backed currency before anyone decided to attempt to barter with gold, and they continued to do so afterwards. That is incorrect. Firstly because gold served as a medium of exchange not as barter. Here are some scholarly sources for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCN2aTlocOw&source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ffee.org%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Ffee.org https://fee.org/articles/what-the-origins-of-money-teaches-us-about-spontaneous-order/ https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Money-Large-Print/dp/147936715X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1531848105&sr=1-1&keywords=On+the+Origins+of+money&linkCode=sl1&tag=intelltakeo0d-20&linkId=e492ae2af474b387e762e98826fe0d0d