# Paid in Salt

> The firsts of money, with the receipts.

Cinematic documentaries about the firsts of money — the first coins, contracts, debts and paychecks — told from the artifacts that prove them.

Contact: info@paidinsalt.com · YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@paidinsalt

## Pages

- [Home](https://paidinsalt.com/index.md): The firsts of money, with the receipts.
- [Agent tools](https://paidinsalt.com/agents.md): WebMCP tool docs

## Posts

- [The World's Oldest Word for Freedom Meant "Cancel the Debt"](https://paidinsalt.com/posts/amargi-oldest-word-for-freedom-debt-cancellation.md): Sumer's word for freedom wasn't a philosophy — it was a receipt for a cancelled debt. The ruler who usually gets credit for inventing it wasn't even first.
- [Your salary is salt — sort of](https://paidinsalt.com/posts/your-salary-is-salt-sort-of.md): "Salary" really does come from the Latin for salt. Whether Roman soldiers were actually paid in it is a better story — because the honest answer has a receipt.

## Agent tools

In-page WebMCP tools via document.modelContext on every page of https://paidinsalt.com/: get_channel_info, search_posts, get_post, get_post_sources, open_youtube_channel, compose_contact_email, get_current_post.
Docs: https://paidinsalt.com/agents/ · post index: https://paidinsalt.com/agents/site.json