Hasta La Ideas

If you think about it, money is weird, and we seek to make it invisible. I’ve heard rumors that in the basements of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and others, there are cages full of gold bars belonging to particular countries, and as currency fluctuates or transactions are enacted, forklifts shuttle the bars from one cage to another.

We consumers carry paper cash, a bunch of scrips, so we don’t have to learn to drive forklifts. And our use of the paper is continually decreasing, as we switch to little plastic cards or tapping out keystrokes on Amazon. We see physical representations of money less and less.

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