Comments by "Zudabaker" (@Vyrus36) on "TED" channel.

@hueykhalidX money is based on the trade bargaining system that developed from the original hold/keep model. (Why fort Knox was originally full of gold before we moved away from the gold standard) In any central system that requires assets or production to be housed and distributed, has fallen back on forms of currency to monitor that system. People are often quick to point that "money is meaningless" but then don't understand what it developed from. Which was primarily grain storage. The American "hay penny" was an homage to that. Essentially, all currency is only as valuable as the hold or keep that backs it. And it can only be backed, under a hold/keep and distribution system. That's how markets are made, it's what trade is based on. Supply and demand, ergo, the supply of your keep and the demand of the community determines how much wheat you can buy for a penny, or a gold coin, or a Drachma could by if you're referencing ancient Greece. This very structure, and shifting currency further and further away from a tangibly backed standard, (ie away from traditional trade standards where goods and services can be bought and sold with one another and maintains a relative trade value) to what more appears like mathematical gymnastics that ends in a sack of flour being valueless outside of the grocery stores return policy. Unless you can make something with it... The real question is, how do we bypass this so we don't have to rely on a hold/keep and distribution form of economy from a centralized ruling government?
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