I mean, money works like that too. It’s not like we value money because paper is rare, we just all collectively agreed to use it to make exchanges easier
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 months agoThat’s the cool thing about language , if enough people do something for long enough then it starts being right
Out of everything you were ever taught, it’s the only thing that works by Tinkerbell rules. If enough people believes something is real. It’s real.
Otherwise we’d all still be talking like William Shakespeare
rockerface@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Dasus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well you’re not wrong, but we used to have the gold standard, and that worked because of the rarity of gold.
Also most “paper money” isn’t actually paper, but cotton/plastic
quaddo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Forsooth, verily, and widdershins
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
You’re saying we’re led by the cool kids.
That’s so fetch.