Chapter 3 in who owns the future had a lot to do with the concept of money. This is pretty interesting to think about. What exactly is money? What makes it worth anything at all. There is no gold backing to money so without the support of the people, money is basically just paper. It goes even further in Today's age with the concept of digital money, without a backing of it, money is useless.
In a lot of ways, money controls our country. It creates social classes and it determines Where people fit within society. It controls our entire economy and the economy on a global scale, so it is interesting to think about that even with it's importance, there is no actual value behind it besides it's conceptual value that is programmed into our minds.
Money is really only valuable if people believe it is. There used to be a small island that used monopoly money as their currency because the sailors that landed there convinced them it was worth something.
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