does anybody ever think of money for what it really is?

Question

little pieces of paper with drawings and numbers on...and little pieces of metal with drawings and numbers on...sometimes not even that...just a bunch of numbers typed into a computer system...thats all it is.....just curious to see if anyone else ever thinks of money like this...;0)

Answer 1

just an I.O.U., from the Bank (along with the rest of the cash they rip you off for), horde it spend it, have a good time with it, your cash your dough, do what you want... .

Answer 2

I do think of it like that a lot. Its just a bunch of tokens really, no different from cereal packet tokens. You do something and someone rewards you with tokens. Funny how the invention of money was inevitable too. People would always want something or need something they couldn't get themselves. So they ask others to get it for them, and they grant a favour in return. Only after a while people didn't have enough favours they could pay people with, so they said tell you what....how about i give you 10 carrots. Then that guy would pay another guy with the carrots because he didn't like to eat them. Then eventually someone said instead of using carrots why don't we just use bits of paper and metal. Lets say 1 piece of metal is the same as giving one carrot to someone to say thanks for doing a job. If everyone uses these little metal bits instead of using loads of different things we will all know whats what. Lets call these metal things groats! and the rest is history! Lol its fascinating. I wander what the first ever coin was called?

I find it weird too how in the past money was always to pay for something to be done, like cleaning something, or making something. Whereas now adays you can get paid money for making money from money other people have let you borrow. Here have my tokens and make my tokens make more tokens! Do coins give birth or what? lol

Just looking at a couple of answers above and i think i can sum it up. You see on tokens and coupons......they always say cash value.....0.00001p. Its the same with money, you never see the gold or treasure or whatever it represents. Money is just that, a label, it represents something. Actual physical notes, and coins the hunk of nickel/copper/aluminium whatever it is alloy has next to no value what so ever. The paper in a fiver is only a tiny bit smaller than the paper in a £50 note, and as a piece of paper its worthless. Its all just to do with the number we print on the piece of paper and the significance we attach to it.

Answer 3

That's A very Random Ques, but i no what ya mean. I see Little value in money, 4 me as an 18 year old has been through 1/4 of an average life (roughly) and I'm not Taking money when i have died, so it really is just what u said it is. paper and Metal. Worthless if you ask me!!lol

Answer 4

Remember that your pocket is your best friend. The world moved from barter and swopping goods in favour of vouchers now known as money. The little pieces of paper are resistant to forgery and are worth having.

Answer 5

Yeah, I think of it like this. Also have you ever considered if all the numbers typed into a computer actually exist, ie if EVERYONE sold their shares, went to the bank and tried to withdraw ALL their money - would there be enough £s in circulation? No chance. Money is kind of a god replacement. Except money exists.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Unfortunately, a lot of people are slaves to money, which is really a bad thing. For those that know the game of money, it is an awesome way of keeping score, isn't it?

Answer 8

completely agree what happened to the good old days of being abe to sell ur child for half a pig? i ask u!
the worlds falling to pieces! and as for the 'does it grow on trees' think.... does any one else find it disheartening when ur child retorts that yes it does!
dam the education system! lol ;)

Answer 9

yep, it seems ridiculous to me to even have money. We should just trade and barter and stuff like they used too. It is really a stupid thing, that we get this paper suppose to be "money" and we never really see the actual gold or whatever that it represents. I don't see the freakin point. I am glad you ask this, i have wondered it for years, glad to see i am not alone....

Answer 10

Yep, Beer tokens