• eatshitforeverbutinaniceway@quokk.au
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      1 day ago

      that’s not how money works. it works on social consensus. if we all agree tomorrow to give each other bread and pay our landlords’ mortgages in exchange for parker brothers barbie™©® monopoly™©® money, that’s real money. who has it is who we agree have it.

      the dead in our culture have nothing.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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      Money is imaginary. Theoretically, all we have to do is all collectively agree that the imaginary units are no longer in his account and are in another account instead