“Paper money is a recent innovation.
For most of human history, cattle WERE money.
This is why cattle raiding was economically significant.
Not stealing food. Stealing liquid wealth”


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Cattle were currency for millennia.
"Chattel" (personal property) derives from "cattle."
"Capital" comes from "caput" (head, as in head of cattle)...











