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Money is really a representative of the labor of the possessor, since labor must create goods or services that can be traded for money. What money does better than barter is to create a medium that is almost universally excepted for all goods and services. That way you can trade the product of your labor for the product of anothers labor that you want without having to acquire another good that they want if they do not want what you already have in excess.

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There's really nothing stopping you from living a nomadic hunter/gatherer life in modern america. What's hypocritical is to expect to live such a life and enjoy anything more than a sustenance level of material wealth.

you want to live a life like that don't bitch when you don't have a car, or a TV, internet, regular meals, or health care....

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