291 | How to Barter
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan talk about how we all seem to find ourselves having the things we don’t need, and needing the things we don’t have—and how we’re so disconnected from our communities that bartering for those things is nearly impossible—with the founder of HaveNeed, Josh Kline, and they answer the following questions:
What is HaveNeed? (00:00)
How has the pandemic affected bartering? (04:01)
What is your distinction between items that are essential, nonessential, and junk? (06:16)
What would the world look like if there was no such thing as money, which has a vice-like grip on the material world; that is, what would the world look like if it ran strictly on barter? (07:02)
What is the history of bartering? (07:26)
What is the “mutual coincidence of wants”? (08:11)
What is “Object A”? (13:44)
Bartering has been around forever, but seems to have fallen out of favor in recent times—why? (26:51)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Minimalist is brought to you by... |
| 0:02.8 | Nobody. |
| 0:03.8 | Because advertisements suck. |
| 0:06.0 | It's focused on backwards. |
| 0:08.5 | Hmm. |
| 0:19.0 | Every little thing, you think that's me. |
| 0:23.5 | Every little thing, you think that's me. |
| 0:28.0 | Every little thing that's just feeding your greed. |
| 0:32.5 | Oh, I bet that you'd be fine without it. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello, Simpletons. |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome to The Minimalist Podcast. |
| 0:39.5 | We discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less... |
| 0:42.5 | My name's Joshua Fields-Milburn. |
| 0:44.0 | And I'm Ryan Nicodemus, and together we are the minimalist. |
| 0:46.5 | Ryan, in the modern world, it seems we have all the things we don't need. |
| 0:50.5 | And we need the things we don't have. |
| 0:53.5 | Mmm. |
| 0:54.5 | But we're so disconnected from our communities that bartering seems nearly impossible. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | We don't even think about bartering when we're talking about acquiring goods and services. |
| 1:06.0 | Wait, this is about bartering. |
| 1:08.0 | I thought it said bartending. |
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