Though keep in mind that if the premises are wrong, all the "shut up and calculate" is just GIGO.

Epicycles were brilliant math, as model of our view of the heavens. Though the crystalline spheres were lousy physics, as explanation.

We get all too caught up in our models and make them gods.

As linear, goal oriented creatures in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, people see money as signal to save and store, while markets need it to circulate. So Econ 101 describes it as both medium of exchange and store of value.

In your body, blood is the medium and fat, as well as bone and muscle, are store. How long would you live, if they got mixed up?

Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. If we treated roads like we treat money, everything would be paved over and we would be fighting over our lots.

We own money like we own the section of road we are on, or the air and water flowing through our bodies. It's not our picture on it, we don't hold the copyrights and, most importantly, are not responsible for its value, like a personal check.

As a medium, it functions as a public utility and social contract. Think community tokens.

Not a commodity, like gold, or bitcoin. They can function as such, only to the degree everyone else also accepts their value. Which is the community!!!!

That we have turned this tool into a god is a big part of why our societies are so sick.

The fact is, people really don't know shit. Even the mathematicians.

We live in a flat world on a round planet.