There's some things that just everybody knows, and one of those things that everybody

knows is how much money is worth at any given time, and think about it.

You always have known, since you were like 10, no, like 8, like no, like 6.

You've always known what 5 bucks was worth.

You've always had a sense of how far that would go, what you could accomplish with it.

And if you've been alive for decades, you have intuitively kept track of how that works.

And if you're from a different country, you've always known what a basic increment of

your money is worth.

And you've also always known what that means.

Every currency is more than just a number that allows you to buy goods and services.

It means something.

The fact that our money in my country is green.

It means something.

The fact that my money is paper in this country, that means something.

The fact that in the middle ages, money was overwhelmingly a bag of coins.

The fact that in some places way back in the day, there's bones or shells or things

that were crafted to look a certain way.

All of that is going to come with a whole batch of meanings, and because everybody uses

money, and because it's one of the few things in life that is very fleeting in terms of

the actual physicality of the money in your hand.

Think about what else you own for a given period of time.

You have a true claim to that also thousands, tens of thousands of other people have held

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