Why Does a Dollar Buy Anything at All? If I handed you a slip of green paper, would you trade your food, your labor, or your time for it? You do every day. But the question is—why? We’ve been conditioned to believe money has value simply because the government says it does. Legal tender laws and government mandates are cited as the holy scripture of currency value. But let’s be honest: saying a dollar is valuable because it’s accepted, and it’s accepted because it’s valuable, is nothing more than a circular fairy tale dressed up as economic theory. The Real Source of Money’s Value Let me show you the bigger picture. The truth is this: money must first have intrinsic…
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