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Using money is just a simplification of barter. I don't have time to play barter with 12 people to get the 1 thing I need. Instead I trade dollars/coins/gold/whatever mutually agreed upon token of value.
Also, my boss doesn't pay me in chickens that I can't use
The argument against money is just silly.
I understand what you are trying to say but however though every single currency or mostly every single currency is going to become worthless like the Weimar mark or the Zimbabwean dollar. I am basing that on both what I see on the news and what is happening to people all around me.
what news sources are you consuming?
because if you're getting the message from the news that economic collapse is imminent and all currencies are going to be worthless and we will need to fall back to a barter-based economy...that is a function of choices you've made in your news diet, much more than it has anything to do with anything actually happening in the real world.
and what specifically is happening to people around you that you're referring to? do you have a pen-pal in Weimar-era Germany who you're communicating with through a time portal? or are you talking with other people who have the same news diet as you do and forming a self-reinforcing worldview?
I am seeing the value of my money go down and down in real time, I am seeing and hearing in my neighborhood that homelessness is going up and up. The news sources I use is philosophical gamer, Robert Kiyosaki and heresy financial. Those are just some of my sources.