One of the main motivations for decent work in Guernsey is to earn an attractive salary. In investment and employment in investment banking in Guernsey level of reimbursement is often higher than in other industries, and the nature of employment tend to focus on the invention and research the same thing. In these days when money is at the heart of our work, not only in Guernsey, but our daily lives, we can easily lose sight of the true meaning of it nor the fact that they have not always existed.
What is often forgotten is that primitive societies had no money, no trade. When negotiations began under a barter system. Goats can be exchanged for corn or sheep axes. As society became more complex, barter evolved inappropriate where a commercial system. Goats may be an acceptable payment for a man, but not for another, you might prefer sheep or cows. Even then, it was easy to challenge the question of how many sheep have won a bag of wheat.
