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When the first farmers' harvests began to emerge, the issue of safekeeping came up. Some of the team, the strong and young, became guardians. They could not cultivate, they had to guard, the question arose, how they would live. They easily came to the conclusion that the rest would have to give a small part of their crop to the guards. The first tax and the first civil servants had been created.
 As they built warehouses to keep their harvest and walls to protect their community and homes to protect themselves from weathering, some πεοπλε specialize in building and repairing. Others specialize in the construction of irrigation οφ channels necessary for watering, others in the manufacture of clothes or shoes or canes. The first craftsmen became fact, a part of the crop should be given to them. Farmers learn to pay taxes on services and items. Everything that is left over is exchanged for what is missing. Trade is born. With trade and warehouses, there is a need to record: how much wheat kept that farmer in the warehouse, how much he got next month for his needs, how much it is left. They draw lines at first, later draw shapes, the image of a sack meant sack of wheat, when a person withdraws a sack, it was erased; progressively turned into a huge discovery, the writing was created.

The small group before, they could reconcile and base their economy on a system of funnels and obligations, but when the population grew, trade also needed an exchange value, a unit of measurement, something to value the price of things. It was time for the money to appear. There are now conflicts about property, hereditary, commercial, need to formulate rules, laws appear. Some have to enact laws, some control their implementation; Life becomes too complicated.

In many religions and myths there is a lost paradise, an Eden forgotten forever, and it is very likely that the former situation was that Eden, when things were very simple, with people just to hunt and eat and stroll.

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