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Money is just a ritualised IOU.
Money is whatever the government will accept/demand in payment of taxes. You could make cow dung valuable if you decreed you would collect taxes by weight of manure.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Oct 5th, 2009 at 08:51:43 AM EST
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Migeru:
collect taxes by weight of manure.

Best description of a market economy ever.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Oct 5th, 2009 at 11:29:48 AM EST
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