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Money is a meme, there is no value it can measure other than whatever delusion people collectively agree to call "value".


The US Dollar is quite the meme! If you’re a US citizen and you have an income in any currency whatever, you have to acquire US Dollars to pay taxes with, or else you’ll eventually wind up in jail :)


Money based on violence.


Yes, and…?

In a stateless society, how would the landed deal with squatters? Couples therapy?




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