> if we could just start thinking in terms of stuff rather than money Well, there are good reasons for thinking in terms of money instead of stuff for ordinary

> if we could just start thinking in terms of stuff rather than money Well, there are good reasons for thinking in terms of money instead of stuff for ordinary everyday affairs. It's a lot easier to keep track mentally of transactions if there is a common unit of value to assign to lots of different kinds of stuff. The issue isn't money in itself but the supply of money, and who gets to control it. Ideally the money supply would be fixed by something that nobody could manipulate. But no society in history has been able to actually achieve that ideal.