The heaviest price you pay is all the roads you didn't take. Opportunity cost is an overlooked yet crucial metric in human action. Sometimes, the price you pay by foregoing an alternative future matters a lot more than the cost of executing your action. Formal education is an excellent example of this: What could you have achieved if you followed your dreams instead of taking the road of compliance? It is easy to analyze what happened and impossible to examine what never happened.
1. Rai Stones was a database (Micronesia) 2. Quipu Knots was a database (South America) 3. Hawala is a database. (Islamicate) 4. Kula Rings was a database (Melanesia) 5. Clay Tokens was a database (Mesopotamia) 6. Caribou Credits was a database (Sub-Arctic) 7. Seal Share System was a database (Greenland) 8. Palembang Tin-Ingots was a database (Indonesia) 9. Yukaghir hunting-credit was a database (Siberia) 10. Pigeon-Post Tally was a database (Mediterranean) 11. Aboriginal Message Stik was a database (Australia) 12. Bridewealth & Cattle Ledgers is a database (Africa) 13. Ortoq Bullion Network was a database (Cent. Asia) 14. Ottoman Defter Register was a database (Balkans) 15. Knife Money Registries was a database (China) 16. Mnemonic Tallies was a database (Scandinavia) 17. Wampum Belts was a database (North America) 18. Cacao-Ledger was a database (Mesoamerica) 19. Shroff Networks was a database (India) 20. Tally Sticks was a database (England) 21. Bitcoin is an immutable database (Global)
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