Money
How did we get here?
Not here as in this moment — but here as in the social imbalances, the quiet anxieties, the unspoken scorecards that seem to govern how people feel about their lives. I kept asking that question, and kept arriving at the same uncomfortable answer: most people don’t actually know what money is.
Not in the way that matters.
Ask someone in your circle and they’ll talk about gold, land, savings. They’ll measure it, chase it, worry about it — but rarely question what it actually is. Is it a piece of paper? A promise? A number in a system someone else designed?
This series is my attempt to answer that honestly. Not as an economist, but as someone who started paying attention and couldn’t stop seeing it everywhere — in how we work, how we relate to each other, how we feel at the end of a month.
Money isn’t just financial. It’s emotional. It shapes how we see ourselves and each other in ways most of us never stop to examine.
Six articles. Four are out. Two are on their way.
Reading order
- You do not own money, you hold a promise
- The scoreboard nobody designed, but everyone plays
- The bank created your loan from nothing and collected real money as interest
- Digital currency and the government’s eye in your wallet
Articles 5 and 6 are in progress.