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Why do you see money as alchemy?
Enem says there's no objective reality. Everything is a creation of our imagination. Reality is a hallucination. It's a collective creation. Whatever we imagine reality to be, reality becomes.
Second idea is Plato's cave. Imagine a cavern and everyone is chained to this wall. They can only stare directly into the wall. Behind them, there's a fire and they take puppets and they reflect these puppets onto the wall. We see these shadows and we think that this is reality itself. They give names to these shadows. They create stories out of these shadows. They create a religion out of these shadows. So what these shadows are are way to structure and direct and focus our attention.
And in our world, that's what money is. Money is alchemy. It doesn't exist outside of us. It's only because we believe it has value. It has value.
For the longest time, money was not an issue for people. If you're a Viking, you and your mates got together and you go and raid a Irish village. The moment they got back home, they spent all this money on a feast for the community. They didn't save it because there was no point. What you cared about was your reputation, leaving a legacy. The memory was not money. The memory was the stories.