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How to fix the economy (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago (12 children)

To quote Brian Brushwood, "It's just pieces of paper that we believe in."

[–] konki@lemmy.one -3 points 3 months ago (8 children)

The reason that you and everyone else believe in it is primarily because you need it to pay taxes, so the belief is not arbitrary.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thinking of how I got here, reductively speaking:

be born
see parents buy food
they use money
i grow up
need food
i use money

[–] konki@lemmy.one 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I agree, but that leads to an infinite regress of your parents observering their parents, etc. My argument is really about the start of this chain.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Ah I see!

Convenience ought to have helped too! Though yes when the person with that monopoly on violence thing asks, you do.

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