Dunatis Posted:

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If you’re gong to start talking ideal society, I think your number one mistake is bumuming that money should even exist. Money is an artificial creation meant to give us motivation to work

No, money is a common medium of exchange used to eliminate the double-coincidence of wants which is such a problem in barter. As we have wants and will trade to sate those wants, it simply is easier to have a common medium of exchange, isn’t it?

On The Origins of Money by Carl Menger