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Blue_Inigo
01/26/21 4:27:46 PM
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That thought is breaking my brain in a way. It's not just that the paper is meaningless. Most of the money we own is just a symbol on a website. What are we even doing all this for?

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Turbam
01/26/21 4:28:10 PM
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For things

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Tyranthraxus
01/26/21 4:28:24 PM
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Blue_Inigo posted...
That thought is breaking my brain in a way. It's not just that the paper is meaningless. Most of the money we own is just a symbol on a website. What are we even doing all this for?
For money

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Unsugarized_Foo
01/26/21 4:28:44 PM
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For resources

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au_gold
01/26/21 4:28:46 PM
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Marx was based.

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g980
01/26/21 4:29:13 PM
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Books arent real
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Unknown5uspect
01/26/21 4:29:26 PM
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Blue_Inigo posted...
What are we even doing all this for?
Yes

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Bass_X0
01/26/21 4:30:17 PM
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One woman I used to know wanted to abolish money and everybody would work for free and resources (food, shelter, health, etc) would be distributed equally.

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Tyranthraxus
01/26/21 4:30:44 PM
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Bass_X0 posted...
One woman I used to know wanted to abolish money and everybody would work for free and resources (food, shelter, health, etc) would be distributed equally.
Actual literally communism

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Squall28
01/26/21 4:30:45 PM
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It's currency which we use to easily exchange value in place of bartering.

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Blue_Inigo
01/26/21 4:30:51 PM
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Bass_X0 posted...
One woman I used to know wanted to abolish money and everybody would work for free and resources (food, shelter, health, etc) would be distributed equally.
Makes sense to me. That's real

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RetsuZaiZen
01/26/21 4:31:23 PM
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Yea it hurts my head to think about it. It's something surface level but deeper in a way.

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nemu
01/26/21 4:33:46 PM
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It's definitely a system that only has value if the society believes in it, so it's a physical/digital representation of a system of trust that can lose its value if that trust is lost. Depending on the context, it's safe to say it's not truly real because money itself has no inherent value.
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Blue_Inigo
01/26/21 4:33:57 PM
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Squall28 posted...
It's currency which we use to easily exchange value in place of bartering.
It's all imaginary bruh. We all have this weird agreement that swiping the card means you just made a transaction. Money you've never even seen just disappears. It never even "appeared" to begin with.

What are we doing

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PiOverlord
01/26/21 4:34:07 PM
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Communism is the future. We will not be working, though, the robots will.


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teepan95
01/26/21 4:34:44 PM
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It's real cause we assign value to it

We cause it to become real
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Unknown5uspect
01/26/21 4:36:15 PM
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Blue_Inigo posted...
What are we doing
Being cogs in a machine

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samurai bandit
01/26/21 4:36:25 PM
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It is either that or trying to bargain 3 chickens for your shoes.

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Squall28
01/26/21 4:36:37 PM
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Blue_Inigo posted...
It's all imaginary bruh. We all have this weird agreement that swiping the card means you just made a transaction. Money you've never even seen just disappears. It never even "appeared" to begin with.

What are we doing

Not sure if srs

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TheBlueMonk_
01/26/21 4:37:34 PM
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Blue_Inigo posted... Most of the money we own is just a symbol on a website. What are we even doing all this for?
yeah i wonder about that. like with bank transfers, when i submit a bank transfer from one bank to another, does that money get loaded up on truck somewhere and sent over? i imagine it must be something like that, but like, at the end of the month or year or something.

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Orlando_Jordan
01/26/21 4:38:23 PM
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Go ahead and think that. I'll keep making money and playing awesome video games.

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RetsuZaiZen
01/26/21 4:38:24 PM
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teepan95 posted...
It's real cause we assign value to it

We cause it to become real
It's nuts tho. Some dude eons ago figured that this shiny rock was worth a lot more than that other shiny rock and everyone just went along with it.

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FL81
01/26/21 4:39:35 PM
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How Can Our Debt Be Real If Our Money Isn't Real?

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Laserion
01/26/21 4:40:30 PM
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TheBlueMonk_ posted...
yeah i wonder about that. like with bank transfers, when i submit a bank transfer from one bank to another, does that money get loaded up on truck somewhere and sent over? i imagine it must be something like that, but like, at the end of the month or year or something.

OK, this one is now puzzling me.
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Blue_Inigo
01/26/21 6:55:11 PM
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FL81 posted...
How Can Our Debt Be Real If Our Money Isn't Real?
It's not real

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Choco
01/26/21 8:46:04 PM
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Laserion posted...
OK, this one is now puzzling me.
banks usually have multiple locations so no that wouldn't really make sense.

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E32005
01/26/21 8:47:53 PM
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Stagmar
01/26/21 9:40:13 PM
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PiOverlord posted...
Communism is the future. We will not be working, though, the robots will.
Does this unit have a union?

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EmbraceOfDeath
01/26/21 9:57:20 PM
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TheBlueMonk_ posted...
yeah i wonder about that. like with bank transfers, when i submit a bank transfer from one bank to another, does that money get loaded up on truck somewhere and sent over? i imagine it must be something like that, but like, at the end of the month or year or something.
Banks only need to hold on to a certain percent of the money they're "storing" for everyone. Your money was probably invested into something else like loans to other people to begin with, not physically at the bank.

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Dark_SilverX
01/26/21 10:00:02 PM
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To make our overlords happy

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Joeydollaz
01/26/21 10:00:03 PM
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OP has not idea it is a NOTE

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AP3Brain
01/26/21 10:24:29 PM
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I dunno. Is it that strange of a concept? It is just something we agreed on the value of to make it easier to exchange goods. Incredibly groundbreaking idea tens of thousands of years ago though.

It's like saying "Names aren't real".
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LeeeeroyJenkins
01/26/21 10:25:14 PM
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CE_gonna_CE
01/26/21 10:32:36 PM
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GME yolo real money 4 life

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Kakapo
01/26/21 10:34:58 PM
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Not directed at anyone in this topic, but you ever notice that the people who argue against gender being a social construct are the same people think money is real?

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Choco
01/26/21 11:08:23 PM
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Kakapo posted...
Not directed at anyone in this topic, but you ever notice that the people who argue against gender being a social construct are the same people think money is real?
gender isn't a social construct

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Trumble
01/26/21 11:09:55 PM
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Money is a social construct. As are many things.

The problem arises from people thinking "social construct" is inherently a bad thing, not that the accusations of something being one are wrong (they're usually not).

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indica
01/26/21 11:11:39 PM
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E32005 posted...
its fiat
This. It's called a fiat currency.

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Naysaspace
01/26/21 11:17:12 PM
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how many times do they reference "the fed" in a normal 10 minute conversation?

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Paragon21XX
01/26/21 11:39:34 PM
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Fiat currency is as real as people believe it to be.

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