People have learned that money is a more efficient way to exchange goods and services than barter. For instance, if you are a shoemaker, and feel like making some shoes, after you've made them, under a barter system, now you must go find someone who has something you want, who needs shoes, and your shoes at that.
Money abstracts your efforts, allowing you to get value to hold for later, and find what you want when you want.
Money in and of itself has no intrinsic value.
The United States dollar, used around the world as a valued medium of exchange, is itself made from waste products.
The money system has worked well for humanity but lately something strange has happened--in a world with more goods and more services than ever before, many people seem to increasingly work more for less!
How is that possible?
The simplest explanation is that some people are accruing money somehow without themselves actually doing anything of value. That is, they are not providing commensurate goods and services at the level of the symbol they hold which claims they did.
So they are committing a fraud.
The problem the world is facing though is that the system is not efficient at figuring out this fraud, so in a world where people are far more effective at using resources, where talents are at a far greater level than before, and where technologies allow great economies of scale, many live in uncertainty, and face significant hardships because they do not have enough money.
Money was an invention.
One has to wonder, is there yet another invention to take us to yet another level?
Yet another way to abstract the exchange of goods and services that solves the problems that now plague our world systems?
If so, such an invention could revolutionize our world revealing the people who really work, versus the people who just work the system--to the collective harm of us all.
James Harris
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