Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: How Capitalism Works – and How it Fails
ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library
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The Alienated Power of Humanity
Money is a digital figment of our imagination. All moneyis virtual. I do not want to promote bitgoing. I think itis it's a bubble, and don't buy them. If you look at the first a coins, no mismataa archaeologist, tell us that they came in the form of shells in mesopotamia. This is how riting emerged from a system of accounting following the agricultural revolution of who owns what. The umbers on the shells entitled the peasant to a quantity of wheat that has not been produced yet from the harvest that will come. So it's a kind of transferable credit written on a shell.
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