Money is a medium of exchange for goods and services. Goods and
services are aspects of reality. Measuring and quantifying aspects
of reality is an abstraction, a quantification, a numerical assessment
to convey in language a conceptual value describing the good or
service that is expressed in reality. For example, a mountain,
an elevated land mass, it is an aspect of reality however, mountain doesn't exist, the WORD
for it DOES. See the distinction? If we enunciate sound or inscribe
a string of glyphs called "letters", we produce a representation
or description of reality using language or "The Word". When a good or service
is rendered, the medium to measure, describe and quantify that
expression in reality is what we call money. This quantification
can be expressed as metal coins, paper notes or electronic computer digits.
These tokens or "currency" express the medium of exchange of goods and services
in our reality. Currency is a curious word since rendering a
good or service in reality requires energy and the flow of electricity or water
is identified as "current". In order to measure quantities
in reality accurately, we use math. That is why currency is
denominated using numbers: one dollar, 10 dollars, 20 dollars, 50 dollars, 100
dollars, etc. These are units of the base ten math system. The
currency we use in our monetary system today is called the Federal
Reserve Note which was instituted in 1913. At that time you could
buy THIRTY 1.55 oz Hershey's chocolate bars for $1 dollar. Today the
cost for ONE 1.55 oz Hershey chocolate bar from Walmart is $1.32.
A 1.55 oz Hershey chocolate bar in 1913 is the same as a 1.55
oz Hershey chocolate bar in 2025. This unit in
reality has not changed. What HAS changed is the medium of exchange
expressed "value" FOR this unit. What type of base ten
mathematical system changes where at one point in time the value
of 1 is vastly different from the value of 1 at a different point
in time? This does NOT occur in reality. One 1.55 oz Hershey
chocolate bar is and will always be one 1.55 oz Hershey chocolate
bar. How is it we have embraced a medium of exchange representation that is not
fixed? This discrepancy in value is called "inflation", where the supply of
currency or Federal Reserve Notes is greater today than it was in
1913. Goods and services that exist in reality are
the same today as they were in 1913. The currency used as the medium
of exchange to value these goods and services is NOT; it apparently flows
like a moving "current" swirling down the drain. Since the majority of money today is
mostly electronic digits, the supply of currency just keeps increasing
while the Federal Reserve Note medium of exchange unit value for
the same fixed goods and services increases with it. What we have
is not a rational, logical, system of measurement but instead an
irrationally insane and fraudulent game of Ponzi theft.
The US Government keeps issuing more and more Federal Reserve Notes into
existence via promissory notes called bonds, while banks charge
fees we call "interest" in order to provide a "service" called issuing
"credit" for those bonds. The interest charged for this credit was never
added to the money supply so it becomes impossible to ever pay
back in full the debt for the credit that was issued, so MORE
credit needs to be issued in Federal Reserve notes to cover the
ever expanding black hole deficit of non existent interest we are "charged" or better "ZAPPED" with.
Over the decades, this compounds into a mountain of debt to the order of
tens or hundreds of trillions of dollars. This is a screwy, broken child's
game of musical chairs that can never end because if it does, the
entire fragile house of cards monetary system will come crashing down. The interesting thing to note is that
this system of medium of exchange variable values operates outside of and is disconnected from physical reality.
It is a conceptual belief held exclusively by humans living on planet earth.
While money continues to inflate to infinity and beyond, a 1.55 oz Hershey
chocolate bar will always remain a 1.55 oz Hershey chocolate bar for
the rest of eternity, house of cards or not.