Estonomics: Get Real
Arvamus | 04 Aug 2010  | EWR OnlineEWR
Robert Pefferly Jr, Estonian Free Press

“Money, money, money.
Must be funny.
In the rich man’s world.”
(ABBA, Swedish Philosophers)


Economics Lesson

Money is “nominal.” It is nothing besides a psychological trick – fiction – a symbol that has no intrinsic value. Unless you enjoy:
• collecting pictures of dead people. (M0)
• staring at numbers on A4 paper. (M1)
• money is useless. It burns well, but it tastes bad and too small for a tissue.

To buy things, we could barter, but that is inconvenient since it requires a “double coincidence of wants” and presents pricing & storage problems. So money is:

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