Your point A is exactly right, People do weird things when they are starving, have a gun to their head, or take pity on someone else. In the USA,I dont trade y

Your point A is exactly right, People do weird things when they are starving, have a gun to their head, or take pity on someone else. In the USA,I dont trade you my horse for your boat. We both are forced to work in unhealthy desk jobs to make barely enough money to pay our rent because neither of us can afford to navigate the complexity behind being in business for ourselves and because living on the street is basically illegal and difficult. So if we ever do save up enough money for a horse or a boat, the transaction is filtered through the prism of multiple corporations and levels of taxation...