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The Simple Question We Rarely Ask: What Is Money?

I feel almost a little silly asking such a basic question on a forum like this. Yet I have often felt that, despite being educated and earning well, many of us have surprisingly little understanding of what money actually is.

The Simple Question We Rarely Ask: What Is Money?

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I feel almost a little silly asking such a basic question on a forum like this.

Yet I have often felt that, despite being educated and earning well, many of us have surprisingly little understanding of what money actually is.

It sounds too simple, perhaps even embarrassingly obvious.

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I feel almost a little silly asking such a basic question on a forum like this. Yet I have often felt that, despite being educated and earning well, many of us have surprisingly little understanding of what money actually is. It sounds too simple, perhaps even embarrassingly obvious.

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It sounds too simple, perhaps even embarrassingly obvious.

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