I knew a lot of this way back in the 80s, long ago farmers would take there goods to town and barter, trade, swap with good they needed. Example, my grad mother would take eggs into town to trade for cloth or meat or what ever she deeded. Bartering I thing was the word but this is how people got the things back then when they had no money. In Germany it was quite common for a farmer to trade a cow for a wagon. Jews come into the game and my grand parents started seeing cash only on store front windows, jews would not except 2 dozen eggs for a spool of cloth. Jews was and still is in control and use guilt to get what they want.