Money doesn’t just “exist” like trees It’s a feature of a society Society can set rules on how it’s used. And it pushes “unspoken ones” constantly. There are

Money doesn’t just “exist” like trees It’s a feature of a society Society can set rules on how it’s used. And it pushes “unspoken ones” constantly. There are exactly zero laws of physics that dictate the mathematical shape of our finance system. It’s all human negotiated grift to funnel the value of effort at scale into ephemeral objects we fetishize collectively Like sky wizards This isn’t sitting in a room talking to your friends about whatever you want Anyone can still do that Politically, free speech to me is emitting whatever syntax I want, and not obliging others to any discoverable semantic meaning they find, and having the same returned Too often free speech = I’m owed being who I want 24/7 in all contexts That’s a gross over simplification. Such a life is impossible to achieve without society picking up a whole lot of burden And really to regurgitate your last line: why do you care how private entities choose to do business?