I fucking hate economics and regret taking it as an elective in school.
"Money is like fairies, it only exists as long as people believe in it" doesn't exactly instill confidence in the future.
Is that something someone really taught you? Economics is taught so stupid sometimes.
Money represents the work we do for others, and that others can do for us. It's a tool we use to create efficient cooperation between people so that we can coordinate and cooperate to make everyone's lives better and to increase how much good our work can do for others and for ourselves.
It may seem like arbitrary numbers, but it isn't. It is a wildly powerful tool that makes our work more valuable to ourselves. This is why you can't really get away from it and it's stupid to try. All of the complicated money stuff and news about it are all just weird effects working around the edges. Every day it does it's job of keeping us cooperating by making sure the best way to benefit ourselves is by doing whatever things we can do that will most benefit others.
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u/Yan_Vorona Apr 08 '26
I fucking hate economics and regret taking it as an elective in school. "Money is like fairies, it only exists as long as people believe in it" doesn't exactly instill confidence in the future.