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How would the Romans, or anyone else, have implemented practical tracking for every day transactions? Is there a single historical example of this being done in
by varenc 3y ago
How would the Romans, or anyone else, have implemented practical tracking for every day transactions? Is there a single historical example of this being done in the pre-digital world? The Census is a survey of people/household/assets, but logging all exchanges of currency is several orders of magnitude more records. I can’t really think of any practical way this could have been done, especially when assuming some people would be adversarial to the tracking (which are exactly the transactions you’d want to track)
Not saying they didn’t see anonymity as a desirable property of transactions, but I don’t take this as proof that they definitely did.
- hammock 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick
- avianlyric 3y agoA tally stick is anonymous. There’s nothing about a Tally stick that links it to any particular individual. To argue that a tally stick can be used as an effective way to track people is to also argue that any physical key can be used to track people. After all a key and Tally Stick operate on the same principle, and yet I don’t think anyone is worried about a government tracking them by their dumb metal house keys.
- _jal 3y agoIf you're actually asking, https://online.maryville.edu/blog/history-of-accounting/ https://online.maryville.edu/blog/history-of-accounting/