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Nice piece Jack. I am not sure that a return to the gold standard or viable, or optimal. Nonetheless, you paint a nice picture that illustrates the “dematerialization” of money.

Bartering goods>commodities/coinage>paper money>digital transactions.

This is the core of progress, finding ways or doing more with less, using atoms more efficiently. We have literally evaporated money as a tangible “good.” https://www.lianeon.org/p/the-evaporation-of-everything

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