Dear Dysfunctional,
Money: it is a constant frustration to people everywhere that our lives revolve around it. We have to work for it, scheme for it, save and count how much of it we use. Or at least so I hear, so far all I've done with it is spent it. For thousands of years humans have neglected other humans for it, so much so that the jealous individuals with none of it even term it as the root of all evil. I'm sure that all of us have, at one point or another, toyed with the idea of a world where money was abolished, and everybody just could take stuff, and everybody would share and smile and never get chicken pox or the flu. In addition to the fact that this attractive idea is of the same strain as the "if I were president, I would have ice cream whenever I want and drive a Lambrogini and have a massive pool and live in southern California, etc, etc", we can also discredit this idea because, after all, the Russians already tried that. Notice that they killed off millions and still has a bunch of starvation and unemployment. Whoops. And considering that the only practical alternative to money is paying for things in chickens and peanuts, neither of which have a stable rate of exchange, I think that we should just stick to our system as it is, especially since the paper that they make bills out of has to be the coolest type of paper in the world and we would be deprived of it without our dear friends (cough) at the US Mint.
Mr. Vastinos Chios
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