I have a far shorter and simpler definition: money are a unit of measure a certain cohort of people agree to accept. They measure "valuables" things to trade, f

I have a far shorter and simpler definition: money are a unit of measure a certain cohort of people agree to accept. They measure "valuables" things to trade, from goods to human work. Private money so money == debt is a popular not-that-modern and widespread scam to keep a strong grip on the society by a small number of people. In the past we have had a bit of power subdivisions: - army power, represented by the State - religion power, represented by the clergy - economy power, represented by merchants Army need religion to keep people obeisant and economy to have natural resources and means to transform them for war and life. Religion need army to be protected, to crush enemy religions and economy to remain in power. Economy need army to protect it's own interests and religion to justify it's own crimes. After the French revolution economy became the State and a religion. And that's why economy now is ruled by dictatorial thieves and being those just "economist" they can't rule well. As clergy they have learnt very well how to pasture the masses, but as State they both do not really know how to fight a war nor how to rule a country and that's the reason of our deep crisis. The rest is noise. Any dictatorship to remain in power need a vast majority of loyal and obedient subjects, to elicit them they need to give something, not just rhetoric, the classic panem et circense. Since there are oppositions they need to give much while they earn much, much more, and so resources get depleted quickly, that a war arrive to justify the disaster, sometimes suffice if there are a ready resourceful and fable enemy, sometimes not and dictators end up badly. Some try to ride the revolt sacrificing some puppets to be substituted by other, again sometimes work, sometimes no. Since we need a society to live well money remain anyway a unit of measure and people keep accepting it at different weight depending on the current situation and the game keep going. The best video-tutorial I see is in a small part of a Colombian movie "El Concursante", perhaps some can find subs in various languages https://youtu.be/WpGhcDg7IJ4 https://youtu.be/WpGhcDg7IJ4