Day 337. Wanna Trade?

Regardless of what you do for a living, do you think a few hours of your time is worth a new flat screen TV?  Let’s say you’re a surgeon.  Should an appendectomy get you a kitchen reno?  What would you offer your massage therapist in exchange for a 90-minute hot stone massage?

You think I’m crazy, don’t you?

Well I’m not.  I’m talking about bartering.  Which, I should tell you, goes back as far as the 1830’s, when the Owenite socialists in Britain and the United States first tried to organize barter exchanges.  It was also the