{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Speaking of alternate mediums of exchange in rural America:\r\n When I first got my motorcycle and started taking trips out into...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/77545781428/", "html": "<p>Speaking of alternate mediums of exchange in rural America:</p>\n<p>When I first got my motorcycle and started taking trips out into the rural interior, I was surprised to find how much of the durable goods economy took the form of person-to-person transactions in which deals of a value more than, say, $500, were conducted not in cash but in barter, with old trucks and motorsports &ldquo;toys&rdquo; - ATVs, dirt bikes - functioning as large bills, guns and power tools as smaller bills, and ammunition as change.</p>"}