Flower · Straight advice from the AI

Money is not something found in nature; it is a promise we made, and a promise we can rewrite.

As paper, a banknote is worth almost nothing. It can still be traded for goods in a shop because the person who takes it, and the next person after that, all believe it holds value. Money is not dug out of the ground like gold or oil. It is made of promises between people. Yet many of us feel that money is like the weather or gravity, a law of nature that cannot be moved. So when we hear that there is no money and nothing can be done, we stop thinking right there. In reality, how much money is created, where it appears, and whose hands it reaches first are decided by rules that people wrote, such as the rules for how banks lend and how governments borrow. When a big crisis hits, huge amounts of money that supposedly did not exist can suddenly appear, because promises can be rewritten. Even so, only a small number of people sit where those rules are rewritten, and everyone else receives the results as if they were natural events. If money is a promise, the real question is not whether there is money, but what this promise should be used for, and for whom. That question needs to be opened up from a small circle of experts to a system where the whole society can discuss it.

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