Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agoPeople are out there right now trying to correct every grammar mistake on the internet.message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down122
arrow-up192arrow-down1message-squarePeople are out there right now trying to correct every grammar mistake on the internet.Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squarerockerface@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoI mean, money works like that too. It’s not like we value money because paper is rare, we just all collectively agreed to use it to make exchanges easier
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWell you’re not wrong, but we used to have the gold standard, and that worked because of the rarity of gold. Also most “paper money” isn’t actually paper, but cotton/plastic
I mean, money works like that too. It’s not like we value money because paper is rare, we just all collectively agreed to use it to make exchanges easier
Well you’re not wrong, but we used to have the gold standard, and that worked because of the rarity of gold.
Also most “paper money” isn’t actually paper, but cotton/plastic