Or they do but I feel like the gravity of the statement alone never really registers

Was recently reading a book written a long ass time ago by some Brit where he talked about how a lot of the value in currency (coins and paper of the time) came from the fact that they were all tangible

And now wealth/money is completely digital. Of course the fed still prints shit, but with the amount of people who use Apple Pay/venmo to exchange “money” from person to person?

Actually, does anyone know what I’m trying to say rn? Is money just a Trojan horse?

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    The number has always been imaginary and its purpose has always been to hide where the value is created

    Focusing on the absurdities of the contradictions isn’t really productive outside of agit prop, and even then it’s only effective to a very marginal group