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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

With the respect fitting my learned colleagues, may I interject the following notation? My library of unrecorded history differs in content from the account which you cite. The area of specific divergence is in regard to items of intrinsic value and income producing assets throughout human history.

The accounts available to me indicate that the group leaders were always the individuals with the most daughters (not the best warriors, hunters, farmers, etc.). For a man with this asset controls not only the wealth of the local inhabitants, but their health and happiness as well.

You see, it is not seashells which are the universal medium of exchange, nor bullion or other trinkets, it is the availability of a perferred outlet for lust which is the fundamental unit of barter. And today, the rate of inflation and other economic indicators can be correlated with the costs for this service in metropolitan areas.