World trade problems have the global economy in a tailspin again. Could we maybe look back into ancient history for a key to local farming versus global commodity agri-business conflict?

Maybe Adult Swim could bring back  Sherman and Peabody?

I think Jay Ward did an episode on the Incan corn based empire?  The Incan system worked like a federal reserve, with store houses of corn, rather than storehouses of electronic/imaginary currency.

In what respect is electronic imaginary corn based currency, ie., grain futures, similar to the Incan system?

Should the world move to a new currency based on food, mineral, energy, and real estate commodity value?  Or is this already happening in reality in an unregulated fashion, and is this the real source of economic and trade problems?

Establishing a floor for basic nutrition, beyond which humanity collectively strives to let none of us fall below, might just remove the brutality from global commerce.  Kind of a world food pantry, that delivers.  Drop food instead of bombs.  On the whole it would be a lot more successful human strategy.