Fun fact: Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People was released in Germany by Daedalic, but it's English-only. I think it's the only thing they've EVER released that's not playable in German. They apparently considered the humour impossible to translate, and thought that anyone who's a fan of Homestar Runner would speak English anyway, since the cartoons were never officially translated to German, or any other language.
I'm going to retroactively claim "Only trust your fists / Police will never help you" as an intersection of good game design (letting the players know that there is no game mechanic where reliance on an authority will at all aid them) and good praxis (letting players question reliance on said authority in the first place).
"before money there was only barter"
when i make dinner with my family:
- our labor is not bartered
- our labor is not bought or sold
so clearly there are modes of exchange not encapsulated in "before money there was only barter"
including mediums that societies have and still do use to function.
i'm starting to think that characterizing money as the sole successor and barter the sole predecessor serves a distinctly political purpose.
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own