In some part of Peru the "trueque" system (exchanging goods) is still visible in markets.
People don't know too much about Peru, in this very forum there's a thread about the legend of the inca mixed with a comet and constellations, then with a combo of Cherokee prophecies and a bit of Mayan, crop signs... mix all in the blender and they created mushed potatoes stuff. The level of ignorance is such that they did incredible rating, I think it does more than 12 pages already and not even the poster who thanks the "words of wisdom" given to him though was the work of somebody else's.... nobody so far corrected that the one who wrote about Cherokee prophecy mentioned KUKULCAN OR QUETZALCOATL IN SOUTH AMERICA which means all those posters and readers still don't have any idea of characters, Quetzalcoatl from CENTRAL AMERICA and Viracocha from South America.

I guess this is the sort of people who watch Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and swallow the idea the MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY BANDIDO PANCHO VILLA spoke Quechua which was the language of the Incas and is still spoken in Peru by a vast amount of people.

The economy demanded people to do some labour for a number of years. It worked but the system was not a Paradise for the families either.