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Money as social technology

Money is technology that solves the problem of barter—eliminating the need for a coincidence of wants—but like all technology, it shapes behavior in directions beyond its original purpose. Understanding money this way lets you see its genuine usefulness while remaining skeptical of the narratives that treat it as natural law rather than social invention.

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