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There's a finite amount of resources (including labor). Money is a proxy for that.

• ClumsyPilot 3y ago
  Suppose i believe that- what is the point of preserving resources, if you are not going to use them to keep yourself healthy and alive? What are you saving them for? But also, that's a very poor proxy - some intangible things like songs cost a lot of money but represent zero resources. Some resources, like a piece of land, quadruple in price, once a fictional planning permission for construction is attached to them, etc. And then you can run an economy like Britain does where you use all economic surplus to inflate value of already existing housing resources, therefore destroying any surplus you could have.