280. The Story of Money feat. Frederick Kaufman

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc · May 15, 2023 · 57m

Money is a mirage, and the harder and deeper you look into it, the hazier it can become. It is a human construct, a tool that we have all agreed to hold value in so that we can exchange it with each other for goods and services, but what is it really? How did we all come to agree on this abstract thing together, and where does it go from here?Frederick Kaufman is a journalist, professor of English and Journalism at the City University of New York, and an author. His latest book is called The Money Plot, and explores the story of how money has been developed and used in human cultures as a…