Fiat currency is just a paper/electronic record of a promise. Because money is a promise, not a commodity. There will always be promises, because that is how h

Fiat currency is just a paper/electronic record of a promise. Because money is a promise, not a commodity. There will always be promises, because that is how humans trade: "Here's a pig, pay me back a pig's worth sometime". There you go - you just created money.