I accept green pieces of paper for my not so hard work. It’s real as long as we all pretend its real.
“Both”
It’s real if you don’t have enough, but pretend if you have too much.
Technically aren’t a lot of things just societal concepts if you think hard enough about them?
Countries, slut shaming, office hours, time zones, dress codes…
I strongly recommend Sapiens: a short story of humanity by Yuval Harari if you’d like to think about this a bit more, particulary his concept of ‘myths’.
I’d guess that you’d find a summary of that chapter online without buying the whole book.
Sort of. Theres maybe something to things that naturally exist, whether we name them or not. We didnt create beavers in the same way we did money.
Well… that’s why I didn’t say everything. :p
Money is. Value isn’t.
Value is. Money isn’t
Damn, if only Santa clause had written a trilogy about this
is isn’t. Money Value
username checks out lol
btw i’m jokingYeah I chose the best username to represent who I am as a person.
nice to be clear with yourself
We are all dumbass on this blessed day.
Amen, brother!
Shit, every day is blessed for me than
tfw you learned you’ve been blessed since birth
If money isn’t real, then nothing is real, because money can buy you anything. Maybe not a good lesson for a 4 year old but that doesn’t make it untrue.
If we agree that something is real then it’s real. Proof is in the reward for agreeing and the punishment for disagreeing.
The only reason we pretend that money is real is because of the Chinese having a big brain idea that it’s more convenient to trade conceptual values, than having to exchange literal five chickens for one cow; one and a half cow for a table; and a table for a room in an inn for one night.
We also pretend it’s real because that’s simpler that treating it as a useful fantasy or whatever.
That’s a danger of too much pretending.
easy: Pretend.
But it becomes real if everyone pretends.
Boff
Just like the Constitution!
It’s as real as everyone is willing to pretend.
The original network effect, bitches.
Its little more than a symbol of capitalist oppression. In a sense its all fake, the entire monetary system is entirely designed to pretend that a small group of elites who do not work create value.
It’s real as in it has physical form, but the value attributed to it is playing pretend that everyone just agrees to go along with.
“why?”
“Because it’s a lot easier to use paper and coins to exchange for good and services than just about anything else.”
“why?”
Paper and coins smaller than cow and chicken.
“why?”
“Just because!”
Yeah, I feel like this one wouldn’t be hard for a child to grasp.
“Woo-hoo!”
That is exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote “goods and services.”
Fiat currency is as real as the law (and all the baggage and corruption that entails).
Crypto is “Trust me, bro! I keep a spreadsheet in the cloud!”
We’ll all be using bottle caps soon enough.
Yes, even though “as real as the law” is a pretty complicated issue.
Actual money is real in the sense that it’s what people use to pay taxes, and if you don’t pay taxes the government has the right and the power to put you in prison. It’s also what the government is willing to offer people to do things like serve in the military, build highways, etc. That means there’s a vast and stable supply and demand for it.
Cryptocurrency is “real” in the sense that sometimes it’s the only way to pay a ransomware ransom. But, the people receiving that ransom are almost certainly going to change it into real money, because they’re probably not paying off ransomware ransoms, and so they don’t really have any use for cryptocurrency.
They might buy some drugs though.
