Re: Money is the only human created fiction that everyone believes

When picking a root cert...
Which one, and why?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fgCRd7Xrx1Fwg9a-l8XreloC_iWdigrDOOp4Igv_UFs/htmlview
Why not visa?
Which is better...
Does it matter where you are from? or how are universal values, for which
trust depends upon, best served by any particular party?
If our religion universally is money, then why not visa. Without money most
people couldn't get bread, let alone a toaster.

On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 at 6:16 pm, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 1 August 2015 at 06:04, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
>
>> "Money is the only human created fiction that everyone believes"... and
>> the coming biological separation of human kind:
>>
>>
>> http://www.ted.com/talks/yuval_noah_harari_what_explains_the_rise_of_humans
>
>
> What he means is that most businesses comply with legal tender laws.
>
> It's quite an old idea that cultures are incubated by what he calls
> stories, in particular, a certain kind of story, known as a myth.
>
> The "myth of a nation" was popularized in the 50s.  Economic myths
> certainly are influential today.  Read about the "myth of barter".  Or the
> "myth of hyperinflation" that prevents us from effectively helping the
> poorest on the planet.  Historians will look back on this, the way we look
> back today on, say, the Roman pantheons.
>
> Every myth has a delivery mechanism.  The book and printing press being an
> important vehicles.  How the myth is delivered is actually more important
> than the myth itself.  This is why the web is going to have a bigger impact
> than most people imagine.  As a delivery mechanism for payments and
> economic activity, the vital thing for our species is that it stays as
> neutral as possible, something we have technically struggled with, to date.
>
>
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>>
>> -- manu
>>
>> --
>> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
>> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
>> blog: Web Payments: The Architect, the Sage, and the Moral Voice
>> https://manu.sporny.org/2015/payments-collaboration/
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