>"Well, that makes it sound even more like he's bullshitting his way through this. Especially since that contradicts one of the reasons he gave me for doing all of this."
>"He told me that a monetary system is inherently unfair because different people will attach different value to different objects. A book, for instance, is of little value to one unable to read, but such a person would have to pay the same amount for it as a literate individual, and would get less value that the money she paid for it, and thus be less satisfied with the exchange then the seller. A barter system, he said, doesn't have that problem; if two people have things that they value little but the other values more, they can trade those things and both walk away equally satisfied. But from what you said, he got you with a system of objective value, not subective value like he claims to want. He said you didn't pay enough, but in a system like what he claims to want, there is no 'enough', because there is no set value for anything."
