Urban Trade Breakdowns

To trade money is one thing. But to actually create money, then trade it, well, that’s a whole ‘nother thing. And being the equal opportunity lover of trading stories that I am, I gotta say something about crypto. So… Money is old as fuck. In 5000 BC people started using metal for trade and by 700 BC our ancestors were minting coins. It took another thousand plus years for paper money to catch on, first in Tang Dynasty China (whatever the fuck that is), as private bills of sale (whatever the fuck those are), and then another thousand years for governments to guarantee the value of a printed piece of paper. But when this happened, it became known as cash money. And for a long-ass time, if you did some work, you wanted cash money for your efforts. And when everyone wanted cash money, cash money was the only game in town. Meanwhile, shit progressed. We go from flint to matches to steam engines to power grids, and along the way, say about 1952, some smart ass motherfuckers figure out ...