You consider usefulness to be the only measure of value, and anybody who says otherwise is wrong.

This is not a direct address of anything I said, nor do I have any idea why you think this is true. I'm not sure what I said that angered you, but it isn't helpful to a reasonable conversation.

My siblings and I wanted to accumulate as much marbles as possible because MORE == BETTER. And then we would trade marbles for other cool stuff that we had.

Marbles have real value. How are you not getting it? Marbles are a natural currency because of their intrinsic value. They are pretty, you can use them to play games. You can roll them around which is fun and teaches people about physics (exploration of natural phenomena). Some are prettier than others. All of those things are real effects; real value, distinct from their use as a currency.

Nobody demanded we pay taxes or anything.

That is because no one needed to make those demands for you to use marbles because they had real value.

That is just laughably crazy to believe that is the only reason currency has existed.

You obviously have not studied monetary history. Do a deep dive. You will find corroboration for all of my statements. Currency only exists for two reasons, intrinsic value, or fiat (demands from authority). Period. All you have to do is look and you will find the evidence, it's literally everywhere. Suggesting such a statement is "laughably crazy" is... I don't want to say "ignorant beyond reason," because that's rude, so I'll just say I don't think you've actually put any study into this at all.

You consider usefulness to be the only measure of value, and anybody who says otherwise is wrong.

This is not a direct address of anything I said, nor do I have any idea why you think this is true. I'm not sure what I said that angered you, but it isn't helpful to a reasonable conversation.

My siblings and I wanted to accumulate as much marbles as possible because MORE == BETTER. And then we would trade marbles for other cool stuff that we had.

Marbles have real value. How are you not getting it? Marbles are a natural currency because of their intrinsic value. They are pretty, you can use them to play games. You can roll them around which is fun and teaches people about physics (exploration of natural phenomena). Some are prettier than others. All of those things are real effects; real value, distinct from their use as a currency.

Nobody demanded we pay taxes or anything.

That is because no one needed to make those demands for you to use marbles because they had real value.

That is just laughably crazy to believe that is the only reason currency has existed.

You obviously have not studied history. Do a deep dive. You will find corroboration for all of my statements. Currency only exists for two reasons, intrinsic value, or fiat (demands from authority). Period. All you have to do is look and you will find the evidence, it's literally everywhere. Suggesting such a statement is "laughably crazy" is... I don't want to say "ignorant beyond reason," because that's rude, so I'll just say I don't think you've actually put any study into this at all.

You consider usefulness to be the only measure of value, and anybody who says otherwise is wrong.

This is not a direct address of anything I said, nor do I have any idea why you think this is true. I'm not sure what I said that angered you, but it isn't helpful to a reasonable conversation.

My siblings and I wanted to accumulate as much marbles as possible because MORE == BETTER. And then we would trade marbles for other cool stuff that we had.

Marbles have real value. How are you not getting it? Marbles are a natural currency because of their intrinsic value. They are pretty, you can use them to play games. You can roll them around which is fun and teaches people about physics (exploration of natural phenomena). Some are prettier than others. All of those things are real effects; real value.

Nobody demanded we pay taxes or anything.

That is because no one needed to make those demands for you to use marbles because they had real value.

That is just laughably crazy to believe that is the only reason currency has existed.

You obviously have not studied history. Do a deep dive. You will find corroboration for all of my statements. Currency only exists for two reasons, intrinsic value, or fiat (demands from authority). Period. All you have to do is look and you will find the evidence, it's literally everywhere. Suggesting such a statement is "laughably crazy" is... I don't want to say "ignorant beyond reason," because that's rude, so I'll just say I don't think you've actually put any study into this at all.