Posted: Feb 22, 2014 12:40 am
by Panderos
Sure the wealth gains of history are real - due to infrastructure, technology, education and what not.

The question of 'what money is' is about as less interesting than 'what is life?' It's a definition, people can define it anyway they want. What I'm most interested in is how the different accounts - the numbers - in the banking system relate to each other. Once you know how it works you can label it up how you like and work out the implications.