The Philosophy of Money with Stephen Hicks (WiM350)
The "What is Money?" Show
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The Philosophy of Money
This reminds me of the Cobra problem too, where there might be a point in the old example of there were too many cobras in the village. Every dead Cobra you turned in, they were rewarded monetarily. They had Cobra breeders. So it's your right. Got a little bit of infrastructure set up your Cobra farm and you've got a nice steady stream of income. Exactly. If we come back to money as like this, I guess the latest layer in many layers of human achievement, right? We had, you know, obviously spoken language, written language, mathematics, probably even taxation. And money kind of emerges as like the latest layer of these cognitive or cultural achievements.
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