Ideal money is abstract goods, a thing by which all men may contract their labor and trade their goods, and by this labor and trade does money gain value.
To gain money means one has traded it for his goods or has labored for it, but a ruling class has stolen from owners their goods and enslaved otherwise free men by trading not that for which they have labored nor traded but printed, and it our own day and age simply incremented a number in a database.
This is fiat currency, for the ruling class by their fiat declares themselves the holder of what they callmoney. Such a declaration is a lie and theft, and it must be condemned on not only civil grounds but religious and moral.
James Lewis on Nostr: Not only "what is money?" in the sense that they don't see it, but we are all ...
Not only "what is money?" in the sense that they don't see it, but we are all questioning what money actually is. Fiat currency was called money, but it's actually a lie.