>Another one that you're due is realizing money is just an indirection for labor. That doesn't imbue it with any special properties. I am not vilifying money.

>Another one that you're due is realizing money is just an indirection for labor. That doesn't imbue it with any special properties. I am not vilifying money. Obviously it is a very useful medium of exchange. I just don't understand why it must be elevated to /universally/ useful medium of exchange. >I wonder what other means of exchanging with other people you can think of that is not money. Votes, for one. Favors. Time (that is not covered by labor such as Time Spent Cultivating Friendship or Mentorship). Kindness. Even most inter personal violence and ill intent. Extra-currency exchanges between people abound and it doesn't make sense in many cases to make them transferable by assigning some currency value to them.