seriously? thousands of years of human society and the best we could come up with is coins and paper?
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>>18053077Come up with a better system than fungible currency
>>18053077It peaked with paper money being backed by gold
>>18053091I hate the act of bartering but I do think it's probably better than this debt based money system we have
>>18053379>probably betterYou mean you're not sure if hoping some dude will accept a bushel of wheat, one fistful of yarn and a rusty axehead in exchange for five chickens and one dried fish instead of just using a currency?
Money is literally fake and gay, so yes representing it in something as worthless and paper and coins is fine. Even worse now that the vast majority of currency in circulation is completely digital, and only secured by servers and bank ledgers.The question we should be asking is after thousands of years, why we still need a medium to give "concrete" value to trade and labor.
Be grateful you live in the modern age. Most pre-modern societies lacked the technological infrastructure to create cryptographic money.
Those are obsolete for all but small transactions, we use numbers in a computer these days
