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I mean, why do you think we really got away from the idea of tying currency to something physical? Money and property are just ideas that enough people agree about to matter. If you don’t agree, too bad and good luck convincing all the others that you’re right, especially with all the resources and power that the winners under this system have gained under it.


> I mean, why do you think we really got away from the idea of tying currency to something physical?

Because US ran out of physical money to pay its debts but wanted to keep the business as usual and the world just let them?




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