What makes you think the causation went this direction?
I meant your point here to be implied by:
Maybe people started with some incidental trade, and the norm developed in fits and spurts after-the-fact.
But, you are noticing something like “I started writing this post like 3 years ago. I crystalized much of the current draft 9 months ago. I noticed as I tried to put the finishing touches on it that something felt subtly off, but then decided ‘screw it, ship it’, rather than letting it sit in limbo forever.” My attempt to tack on a slightly more realistic understanding in the concluding section is indeed inharmonious with the rest of it.
I probably have two different replies addressing your object level point, and the broader point about how this overall sequence fits together.
I meant your point here to be implied by:
But, you are noticing something like “I started writing this post like 3 years ago. I crystalized much of the current draft 9 months ago. I noticed as I tried to put the finishing touches on it that something felt subtly off, but then decided ‘screw it, ship it’, rather than letting it sit in limbo forever.” My attempt to tack on a slightly more realistic understanding in the concluding section is indeed inharmonious with the rest of it.
I probably have two different replies addressing your object level point, and the broader point about how this overall sequence fits together.
Acknowledged.