I_Bin_Painting

I_Bin_Painting t1_jeaqga8 wrote

Money is a bartering system. We barter time and work for money then money for goods and services.

You need a universal medium of exchange otherwise how does e.g. a plumber keep his family fed? There's a limit to how many farmers in the area want plumbing work, so then the guy would be stuck needing a warehouse to store all of the bullshit he works for but does not want, and needs to store until it can be bartered. Everyone has to be a General Store.

Money is good. How we allow it to work and be politically controlled is not great.

Edit: it would be even worse for the farmer trying to offload a whole harvest and just needing to accept whatever people could trade before it expired.

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