I'm having a small laugh as I was just expaining barter to my kids today...they were arguing over 'match attack' football cards.
One thing I would say is that we are all (as we say in Ireland) fecked, because if you want to start to try and beat the system you have to go 'off the grid' .....so no more Internet!!! ....god I remember when the Internet was "unable to be regulated"...Ha Ha Ha, what a fallacy that was ! The terrible thing is that I, in days of yore, helped the beginning of Internet regulation....the shame, the shame.