Because otherwise the parakeet bones might have gone to waste.

More to the point would the instrument repairer be able to recognise a parakeet's bones from any other parrot of the same size?

Parakeet is an odd choice for my idea of the sort of person who wants a bone necklace

I feel like stardew has money

Fragile has trust issues?

Barter economy sucks when you actually need stuff, and was pretty much only practiced by long-distance merchants who had no reason to trust one another.

For anything close to necessary in a society, mutual aid is much better, and has a much stronger basis in the historical record. No reason to dedicate half your house to random garbage when you can just have people know you help people when you can and so you deserve to be helped in turn.

And before anyone mentions it, "The tragedy of the commons" is something that very notably didn't happen to actual historical commons. What few selfish people there are were given their own personal incentive structure, while anyone with a lick of sense took freely and gave freely.

It required capitalism making those selfish people legally correct and backed up by state violence for the commons to die out.

It is this, but instead of everyone needing to pay for stuff storage, we took the value of the stuff and trade to a portable, simple intermediary called money. There's a reason why money was developed practically everywhere with more than the most rudimentary economy.

Will you take 3 pallets of root beer for a gross of those self-sealing stem bolts?

Commercial honey is often pasteurized and filtered to avoid crystallization, be smoother and be pollen free. While it can effect the shelf life raw honey isn't enormously dangerous (or illegal anywhere as far as I'm aware) like raw milk but should still be avoided by infants and immunocompromised people. I am also not american.

That all depends on how many bird corpses per hour you're earning.

"Say, do you like raw honey?"

I wonder who the cello woman asked for it. I wouldn't ask for a necklace made of parakeet bones unless I was offered one.

Giants knife was pretty good even broken tho', that's what they don't want you to know

One red paperclip.

I'm guessing that's what you're referencing.

There was a dude in the Lego community on Lugnet at the time that took the idea and did a similar thing trading up from a 1x1 red stud to a Technic bulldozer that was one of the most expensive sets at the time.

Best I can do is when I went to germany to baptize my french nephew with the ceremony being in Spanish

While I agree this is probably just a made up funny joke, if you you've ever actually lived in a gift/barter community, it's pretty much this. Hung out pretty much exclusively with anarchist and various left-communists for years, and this was my life. You do things for folks, they do things for you, and along the way you end up with stuff like a shit ton of honey, and you end up giving that honey out in exchange for something else, and you end up meeting someone with a weird skill, and it all just spirals into this weird and glorious community.

The difference is that in real life, you're not saying "I'll give you this honey for a bird corpse" you say "hey, man, can I have your bird corpse, I know a girl who loves macabre art, and it would be a really cool way to honor your beloved pet," and then you either give them honey as a thank you, or just later on when it comes up that they want some honey, you give them some because you happen to have some.

I once had a friend who straight up gave this guy his Prius, that same dude ended up giving a mutual friend a place to stay for over a year. Original Prius owner never got anything directly for the Prius, but he was within the little gift economy, and ended up receiving lots of things and services from various members over the years. I doubt he feels like he was not repaid for it.

It's a pretty great way to live. It's a shame we all could never work out a way to get land and built the cohousing community we dreamt of.

But that's exactly where the incredible wealth of interwoven community comes from! The value of a thing isn't distillable to a hard number, and in trying to do so, we cheapen the wonderful and make the essential unaffordable. Add to that the value of the story that comes with everything you touch...idk. I get really excited about this stuff.

Could have been stolen from a school? When I was younger I used to live on military bases and you could get second hand instruments for basically nothing. It was pretty common for military families to just not return their instruments to whatever off-base school they were going to when they moved.

It reads more like mutual aid to me.

I am learning bread making, and that is one of the reasons. It will be a useful skill if the shit truly hits the fan.

And I don't wanna live through the apocalypse. I just want some skills to pass on to those who are trying to survive.