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Memes! A way of describing cultural information being shared. An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Money is a fake meaningless construct anyway. It has no value. You can't produce a duplicate rock from a ditch yet you can apply "mathematics" and change a dollar bill to two dollar bills! If it defies physics it ain't real. Yet, it is the be all and end all of our existence???

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Because direct trade and barter stopped making sense centuries ago.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

Arguably millennia ago? There has always been some degree of bartering that will never fully disappear, but money has been around for a long long time in basically all cultures

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