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We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time
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The value of everything changes. Time is not static. What maybe useless today may be of great value tomorrow and that value has to be tracked.
A system without money is just a system where the actual currency isn't obvious.
Who said anything about no money?
I think the problem is in the "measuring someone's worth using an arbitrary number", and not the money itself.
It's that human worth shouldn't be attached to a random hierarchical tool, whose main function is to distribute violence.
I agreed until you said that money was made to cause violence.
I didn't say literally any of that though.
I said its main function is to distribute violence.
Money mainly exists as a way to decide to whom you will deny service.
The more money you can give, the less people will deny you what you need, and the opposite is true.