- Yuval Noah Harari

Trusting the world Homo sapiens evolved to think of people as divided into us and them.“Us” was the group immediately around you, whoever you were, and “them” was everyone else. In fact, no social animal is ever guided by the interests of the entire species to which it belongs. No chimpanzee cares about the interests […]

- Yuval Noah Harari - Yuval Noah Harari Skip to content More Topics The Scent of Money Excerpt from Chapter 10 – Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Initially, when the first versions of money were created, people didn’t have this sort of trust, so it was necessary to define as “money” things that had real intrinsic value. History’s first known money— Sumerian barley money—is a good example. It appeared in Sumer around 3000 BC, at the same time and place, and under the same circumstances, in which writing appeared. Just as writing developed to answer the needs of intensifying administr

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