Diary (January 17, 2021)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Sunday January 17, 2021.

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Money

Money is the sum of our promises to each other

Enforced by threats of violence from government

Coins were invented by empire-building warlords as tools for imposing taxes on conquered peoples

See Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber.

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