Comment Re: where's the money?! (Score 1) 213
Thank God money evolved before humans or else we would never exist.
True Dat.
Before money, the world population was less than a million. Now it is growing by millions a day.
Straight-up barter is not money. "Money" arises when there comes into being a standardized unit of exchange that is independent of the commodity being exchanged. Evidence for that only shows up around 3000 BCE at the earliest, at which point the world human population amounted to tens of million, not "less than a million". The early records of exchange though only involved standardized weights and measures of commodities, not an actual currency of any kind. This shows up around 1000 BC for the first time, and at that point there were on the order of 100 million people in the world.
Current world population growth is about 400,000 per day.