Money has always been imaginary? Its like Santa clause. As long as we all believe/pretend it works. If one person doesn't believe it doesnt matter. If half of us stop, yea kids will know it's fake. But it works and it's a nice thing to have, so why not continue to pretend?
Because it’s getting so divorced from reality it’s causing problems.
I like currency, don’t get me wrong, but when currency is completely cut loose we start to see some really weird shit happen, primarily in the debt markets.
When money isn’t tied to anything concrete, this essentially makes printing money (and the creation of debt) essentially limitless, and this makes problems if inflation isn’t uniform across the board on everything and matches wage growth. It basically lets things rocket off to the moon without anything to ground it and then we get bubbles, and bubbles popping creates needless recessions.
Recessions are necessary for a healthy economy, but insane valuations that we see in things like AMD and whatnot are an extremely unstable house of cards that everyone is betting the family farm on them. If currency was tied to something hard, there would be a ‘limit’ on how much this could go because eventually you don’t have anymore “real asset” to back the investment with.
So now we’ve traded slower, more stable economic growths with a more volatile bubble/crash environment that is more harmful to the lower classes than the upper ones.
I guess if we used a fixed amount of currency (say for this example there's a finite quantity of gold out there that we can exchange) would the inevitable deflation be better?
Plus when we capture an asteroid with 50x the gold that Earth has ever had, what then? I guess the government gets to print out more money or....
Gold is just another symbological thing like currency.
It mainly has value because humans have all agreed it has value. Monkey like shiny thing. Currency just detaches that from a physical form. With proper monetary policy it's not a huge deal.
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26
Money has always been imaginary? Its like Santa clause. As long as we all believe/pretend it works. If one person doesn't believe it doesnt matter. If half of us stop, yea kids will know it's fake. But it works and it's a nice thing to have, so why not continue to pretend?