Copyright Carl Janssen 2024
I am publishing this in 2024. This was in my drafts from an unknown date
Below is all that was in this draft other than the title, "Getting something for nothing of value through money"
money made out of dung
I will add the following comments
Imagine if someone gave you a piece of dung that was even less valuable than normal dung and you did not want to eat or touch or use for tools and you did not even want to burn it or use it for fertilizer. But they said this piece of dung had value because you could trade it for other things that had value. They would get something that is valuable to you through you in exchange for something that has no value in terms of use to you. You could only trade this worthless dung if you convinced other people that this worthless dung has value and by recruiting new members to believe this worthless dung has value or maintaining the belief of the current members in the value of this worthless dung. This dung would be a ponzi scheme just like money is a ponzi scheme if you can not use it for anything other than trading it. The first person to give away this dung got something of value from someone else in exchange for losing nothing of value to them and every person after them lost the value of whatever they traded to get the dung in exchange for a piece of dung that is of no value to them. Each person could recover their loss by giving the piece of dung to trade with the next person but they gained nothing of value by giving away their prized possession for getting the piece of dung in return in the first place. Money is like a game of hot potato where people throw a potato from one person to another and the last person to hold the hot potato loses when the time runs out loses instead of throwing a potato you are throwing around dung that infects the minds of people who have not developed the mental immune system to see through the lie.
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