I wanted to discuss this more because I’ve definitely got wealth caps. I’d say I have a neutral stance towards money nowadays. I don’t particularly like it, but I don’t really hate it. I find it largely useless apart from survival and the occasional stuff I buy to enrich my quality of life. Here’s where my confusion lies.
It’s numbers in a computer. Even the money exchanged to them for their service might not have been physical. Hell even the US dollar is a piece of cloth that represents something, like an iou to the universe as to how valuable it is. And it’s not a constant rate, so it has no fixed value. Maybe going into woo territory here, but the energy of money isn’t yours. A physical bank location does not hold everyones money there, the physical bills that you put in there might have gone off with other people. Tucked away in their house, exchanged for goods, put into another bank, etc. Do objects themselves hold energy? I have no idea.
So what the hell is it? A collective belief system held in place? Who’s to say what exchange has “value” when all this is made up? Back in the day trading one goat for two chickens because you needed eggs was an immediate understanding of the fundamental value. Now it’s blurry. To make things worse value can be artificially inflated. Do you need that iphone? Probably not. But the way some people talk about having to spend 1000 on a new phone like it wasn’t their choice is a bit odd to me.
Anyone want to start a dialogue on this?