I agree it's hard to see why it would.  It's a very difficult thing to imagine.

This is what I did and it's hard to get to that mental state, well it was for me anyway.

I had to try and forget about Money, I also had to try and forget about numbers.  Then I had to imagine being engaged in barter 12,000 to 600 years BC.

It's very hard to explain, but the person selected to barter for the family, group, village, tribe etc had to exchange Pure Human Empathy or they would face violence and likely death.  An individual would not survive and a family would have to be very large to survive too.

In that situation, globally, the levels of Empathy sharing had to be perfect.  So there would be a balance between people, the environment, the local groups and spreading out more globally.

Violence would reign, because there was no Immutable Record of what Empathy was indeed shared. 

Key to this is also a lack of numeracy.  Even if you had back then a perfect form of Money, Humans did not have the numeracy to test whether it was fair.

It is important to recognise that people's numeracy didn't start to improve until into 1900's.  Well after Money had been introduced gradually since 600 years BC.  The parity between Money use and Numeracy of people didn't happen until circa 1950's.  Globally only now are we getting close to all people, not just having numeracy but also the ability to apply that numeracy to the real world.

So I believe that Empathy from Barter can now be recaptured by Bitcoin.

I also wrote this below, if you're interested.

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