Money is an abstraction created to make it easier for people to measure and trade value, and avoid the problems of barter.

One of the fundamental problems with modern capitalism is it replaces creating value with creating money.

Discuss.

Hmm. I'm beginning to suspect that to do lots of the many things I want to do (one of which is to find an old building and turn it into a factory of awesome), I'm gonna need a significant amount of cash. Not Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark level of money, but quite a bit of dough. Now to figure out how to get it in ethical ways that would leave me the ( Read more... )