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What is money?

What is money?

Money is a WIDELY ACCEPTED medium of EXCHANGE. Lets analyse each word, they really have a huge importance:

  • Widely: it has to be accepted by many people, otherwise it can’t work.
  • Accepted: It has to be accepted by all these people, which means we need to have some sort of agreement that we will all accept it.
  • Exchange: Now that everyone accepts it, we also agree that it has some sort of value and we can exchange it for certain things.

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