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84. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life Is Meaningless and Amazing

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Most Successful Story Ever Telled Is the Story of Money

The most successful story ever told is the story of money. How does it work? Money, you have these big story tellers,. and they tell us that one dollar equals a banana. It's not true in any objective sense. You can't eat dollars. You can’t drink them. And it works provided that enough people believein the story. If one person stops believing in the dollar, nothing happ but if millions of people stop believing in thedollar, it loses all its value. We're part of the social contract to accept money.

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