That's not even the point. There was likely a form of economics even in the Stone Age. Humans are social creatures. I'm guessing trading and some kind of division of labour was a part of that society.
An economy is basically the existence of a form of trade or a place of exchange. If you don't want to be a part of an economy, you must live as a self-supported hermit.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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