Re: "Money" and the free market

Zarlot531 wrote:
Quick question... how do people (including me usually) who generally
believe in free markets and want government to be as limited as
possible reconcile this belief with the fact that "money" is largely
something fairly arbitrary (at least in what becomes money and the
amount produced/to produce), and is also generally developed by our
governments. Yes, at any point in time the people I suppose decide
how to value the money but the GOVERNMENT or some particular group
keeps the control over the supply, especially when the money is easy
to produce/destroy.

I just don't know how to think about money ... money just seems so
arbitrary

A thousand years of humans trying to control their money. It never works because humans do what they do. The only money that has been shown to work is a money supply that can't be controlled by humans.
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