Before money, all the world lived in a state of unused plenty

Evidence

Thus in the beginning all the world was America, and more so than that is now; for no such thing as money was any where known. — , Second-Treatise-of-Government-1645716289, 1026

Categorization

• CANDY: One-line retort: before money, everywhere was America.
• XREF: connects to: True wealth is a single empty space rather than accumulated possessions — Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 493; Precolonial Africa used diverse currencies where money was above all a social institution — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 53

Broader Connections

• True wealth is a single empty space rather than accumulated possessions #complicates (0.90) — Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 493
• Precolonial Africa used diverse currencies where money was above all a social institution #contradicts (0.90) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 53