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That sounds sarcastic. I'll upvoted anyway.

Actually I'm serious! Haha. What can you buy?

I have seen people sell their artwork and even sugar cane for steem and steemdollars. And there are projects popping up like @steemshop.

So Steem is the new bartering system?

Well Steemit is a new many things. What it is, is a Social network with the ability to trade money freely. So social network + money = a market place, a way to raise donations for charities, a retirement plan, etc.