• rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I mean, money works like that too. It’s not like we value money because paper is rare, we just all collectively agreed to use it to make exchanges easier

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      8 months ago

      Well you’re not wrong, but we used to have the gold standard, and that worked because of the rarity of gold.

      Also most “paper money” isn’t actually paper, but cotton/plastic