How else can corruption be eliminated? Live simple and remove them from our lives.
Money has no value, labor and goods do, however.
The value of money is an illusion and a means of control.
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Which is also a useless representation of labor and goods, but I do own silver. ?
A real tangible asset like silver or gold is a convenient barter intermediate. These metals were used for adornment before they were used as this intermediate. Their rarity made them very valuable v. their mass/volume, and their intrinsic value (value having nothing to do with being a barter intermediate) is what allowed them to remain a meaningful currency for all of human history up until the DS finally eliminated it 50 years ago (after a more than 200 year effort to do so).
I agree with your sentiment, but disagree with your assessment. Silver and gold have real value. People trade for them even though they aren't useful for money. People trade for them even if they have no intention of using them as a storage of wealth or for investment. People want them no matter what and they always will because they are pretty and/or have amazing physical properties for our technology. That is why they are useful as a currency and always will be (or at least for the foreseeable future).
Why do they have value? It's a belief that they do.
The only real value for humans is an expenditure of calories when you get to the root of it no?
What is value? People desired and used them before they were used as currency. Is that not value? People desired them A LOT. They are both beautiful and rare. Is that not value? They have unique physical properties (separate from their lustre) that allow our technology to work. Without them our entire society would be substantially diminished (technically speaking). Is that not value?
Is the only possible value food, and protection from the elements? We are much more complicated than just being biological factories. To ignore that obvious fact is to be a minimalist of absurd degree.