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longdustytrail | 11 months ago

It’s true that all money is made up, but not in the same sense OP means.

Like I could give you 20 dollars and it’s made up in a sense, it’s just a piece of paper, but also you can go to the store and buy things with it.

Whereas if you’re an investor in a company and the CEO does some self dealing which nominally values your shares at 20 million, you can’t go spend that. It’s even more made up

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janejeon|11 months ago

Or, an (over)simplified way to put it:

"All money is made up, but some are more made up than others."