April 2, 2025
The Necessity of Money

Money is a necessary means for the exchange of goods: without it, living a life that is not entirely primitive would be practically impossible. How could a doctor buy bread? Would they have to wait for the baker to fall ill in order to treat him?
Wealth consists of goods; money is merely a tool to exchange them.
Within a family, money is not needed because goods are shared. There are, however, utopian ideas that believe an entire society could function as one big family, but this is clearly impossible because family bonds cannot extend to society as a whole.