(December 21, 2022 at 2:38 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The pieces of paper exist just as churches exist. The value of the money is not, however, based on any objective reality of those pieces of paper. If we all stopped agreeing that they were valuable, the paper would still exist - but would not be money..as so many other discontinued currencies. If we stopped calling mountains mountains...and in fact we have many words for mountains, they would remain precisely what they were when we did call them mountains, just as pluto remains precisely what it was.
There's no difference except we don't use mountains for much in particular.
If we stopped calling the paper money the paper would still exist if we stopped calling a tall mound of earth a mountain whatever its made from would still exist but would not be classified by people as a mountain.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
