We use the exchange of money to approximate value. You won't pay me $1,000 dollars for my mousepad, because you don't value it at that. Someone around here used

We use the exchange of money to approximate value. You won't pay me $1,000 dollars for my mousepad, because you don't value it at that. Someone around here used a bad example of rigging art prices, but the reality is, that painting is now valued at whatever 10's of millions of dollars it is regardless of personal feelings of mediocrity. Money is of course not value, and I'm sorry, but that is a completely basic statement that I'm surprised to see so many people it's just dawning on them now, but it is the tool we use to approximate actual value in our transactions, whether that be for labor purchase, value passed on to share holders etc. Of course it's an approximation with issues, someone define value for me? You can't because value is different to everyone but we use money to express the value we perceive something to have in matters of business. The writer here doesn't seem to understand basic economics and money as a proxy for value, again in business, which seems likely and they should probably stay in their lane just like we tell other people who write things they know nothing about. This standard proxy of value is true in every purchase you make, your salary, his stock value etc. and it's the standard we use, and is it perfect, hell no, but it's worked since the concept of exchanging coins in place of cows and barrels of spice came around and we haven't seen anything supplant it yet. The fact the author is quibbling over semantics to me means there is not much of an actual argument being made and everyone here just ate it up.