Euros discarded as impoverished Greeks resort to bartering

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Is it really bartering when you are swapping goods or services for a token you in turn will swap for goods and services? Or do we barter everyday now? Would one 'resort' to barter or would it be something that is remedy or advantageous given different situations?

Barter for me is something that is used between individuals or within a community where each transaction is negotiated and no common token or item is used to ascribe a particular value to an item - only its desirability to the one who wishes to aquire it and the reward the producer think it is worth give it value.

Resort to barter? Nay, saying someone is resorting to barter is doing a disservice to barter, for it surely is a higher way of doing things than passing tokens around. It requires thought and it also requires all who wish to undertake in a transaction to be a producer of some sort, rather than a money grubber.