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What is money

Money is a technology for deferred exchange—a medium that lets you trade your labor today for goods tomorrow without requiring someone to simultaneously need what you produce—whose real power lies in establishing stable value across time and place rather than in the material itself. Understanding money as social agreement rather than natural object clarifies both how it enables coordination and where its apparent neutrality conceals human choices about who benefits.

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