The magic part about modern currency isn't the caste of the bean rationers. It's the number of guns they have. Money is valuable because the people with a mono

The magic part about modern currency isn't the caste of the bean rationers. It's the number of guns they have. Money is valuable because the people with a monopoly on the legal use of violence say it's valuable. There are many of other things that are valuable because of their utility, like a sandwich, or some kind of agreed upon cultural intrinsic value, like gold, and many of those can be even used as a medium of exchange, but those things are not money.