Why Didn't People Just Refuse to Use Money?
The king's tax was once a year, in a fixed amount. So why couldn't people just earn that much and go back to living as before? Because over the next three...
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How Money Actually Works
The argument no one finishes
Money is not a neutral medium of exchange that markets naturally produced. It is a specific instrument of control, created and maintained by specific institutions through specific legal mechanisms, that determines who can access what. This series builds that argument from the ground up — one mechanism at a time.
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