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scotty79yesterday at 5:32 PM1 replyview on HN

Money is a mechanism for keeping tabs on how much the human civilization owes to any particular person or entity. It's imperfect, sure. But it's what we decided to go with. If you don't have money, society just decided (using its mechanisms) it pretty much owes you nothing. So your demands are disregarded.


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nathan_comptonyesterday at 6:16 PM

Who is the "we" who decided to go with it?

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