Money

Properties of Money

Money's a matter of functions four,
A Medium, a Measure, a Standard, a Store.

An entity to be called money is to have these 4 properties:

Medium of Exchange

For better efficiency than barter, a universal medium

Unit of Account

A universal unit that widely different things (eg fish vs a massage) can be reduced to

Store of Value

Should hold its value for a reasonable time

Standard of deferred payment

From Commodity Currency to Fiat Currency

• ◉ fiat, n.: An authoritative but arbitrary order
• ◉ fiat money, : Money without intrinsic value

• The word fiat is by definition arbitrary.
• When applied to politics it is considered the antithesis of democracy Yet most countries use fiat currency today, the more 'democratic' the more arbitrary, ie less intrinsic value… Backed by elaborate systems of duping such as fractional reserves
  And ultimately guns and nukes
• Most of the high offices of most of today's governments are staffed by criminals

▣ Today's money systems are the result of systematized criminality; With banks, governments, media being the colluding parties

Causes of Failure

• Cannot be universal when everyone does not accept issuing authority
• A standardized base unit makes sense if the conversions make sense to transacting parties, if there is any common ground between the parties.
  What will a sub-saharan African with 10 children, most of whom will not live beyond infancy, transact with an European who gets free education, with an American who's biggest grouse with the government is the raising of medicare rates?

And yet today the African can consider escaping to Europe/US