[lifetimelearner]

Originally Posted by ar81

Money was originally a mean to measure exchange.
Economists and bankers made money to be the ultimate goal, and this is why we have this crisis.
If you remove the ability of money to be exchanged by goods, world economy becomes a virtual online game played on the bank servers.
Dedicating your life to money would be addiction to videogames.
Forbes measures who has more money, the highest score in Pacman.

In 1922-1923 Germany suffered hyperinflation. Money does not even have an intrinsic value by itself, as the experience showed there. It was the aberrant game of economics, causing social chaos. And economists officially still wonder what happened, but off the record they know it was a time of easy credit, just like the bubble we have now..

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