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edgyquant on April 27, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got met...

Any device that is used to ration is money though, there are other means to ration (the three we learn in Econ are beauty, brute force and first come first serve) but any device is by definition money since money is just a rationing device.

sudosysgen on April 27, 2021 [–]

No, money has many more attributes than just being used to ration. Importantly money must be fungible divisible and durable.

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