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it’s almost as if we figured out money made the most sense thousands of years ago
Yes, not centuries. When large societies were formed with trade amongst strangers becoming more common, money and/or ledgers were created to keep track of specific amounts of debts and credits. There was also never a point in time in which bartering was the primary system of economics.
Although weren't currencies tied to a physical good for value until very recently?
Yes, and we stopped doing that because it made the system less stable