{"id":3223,"date":"2019-11-13T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:25:16","slug":"why-does-money-have-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/why-does-money-have-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Money Have Value? Only Because We Trust Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A dollar bill is just a piece of paper. Why is a piece of paper with Alexander Hamilton’s or Benjamin Franklin’s face on it worth more than the paper of books filled with words? In other words, why does money have value? How does money get<\/em> its value?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Money has value because we all believe <\/em>it\u2019s valuable. We trust other people value it, and trust is the foundation of our economic system.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll cover the varying values of ancient currencies, the role of mutual trust, and the difference between inherent and noninherent value in money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Value of Money<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Cattle, animal skins, grain, salt, beads, and cloth have all been used as currency in various cultures and time periods. While we think of coins and banknotes when we think of money, these are actually rare forms of currency today. Of the $60 trillion in the world, only $6 trillion of that sum is made up of material currency. Over 90% of all money exists only as electronic data on computer servers.<\/strong> Why does money have value?
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Inherent v. Noninherent Value<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first key to answering the question Why does money have value?<\/em> is the concept of inherent and noninherent value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first types of money<\/a>, like barley in Sumer in 3000 BC, had inherent value because it was edible. However, the most common forms of money, the currencies used because for ease of storage and transport, like shells, dollars, and silver, don\u2019t have any inherent worth.<\/strong>
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Take silver, for example. You can\u2019t eat it. You can\u2019t make clothes or shelter from it. It\u2019s far too soft to be used in tools. What\u2019s it good for? Why does it have value? We use it in jewelry, luxury goods that display to others our social status, but it has no value beyond its value as a status symbol. <\/strong>It\u2019s valuable because we all believe <\/em>it\u2019s valuable.
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A System of Mutual Trust<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So, why would anyone trade a bag of rice, something that has inherent value as a source of nutrition, for something as useless as a chunk of soft metal, a shell, or some pieces of green paper? Why do we place so much importance on them?
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Because we trust other people value it too. This is the second key concept ot answering the question Why does money have value?<\/em> Trust is the foundation of our economic system.<\/strong> You believe that the piece of colored paper that is the dollar bill has value because your neighbor believes it has value. And your neighbor believes it has value because you<\/em> believe it has value. And you both believe it has value because your government believes it has value and demonstrates this by requiring you to pay your taxes with it.
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Bills and coins that bear the identification marks of the kingdom or government, modeled after the first coins made in western Anatolia in 640 BC, give the currency value because they show that an authority can guarantee them. If you trust the king, you can trust the currency with his stamp on it.
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Our financial system is entirely dependent on this mutual trust. Without it, the dollar bill is just a piece of paper. <\/strong>This crucial element of trust binds our financial system to our political and ideological systems. When we lose trust in our leaders, the people and systems giving value to our money, we lose trust in the value of money. We momentarily stop believing in the collective fiction (and the stock market takes a plunge). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Money, the Great Unifier<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Money brought cultures that had little in common together. The gold coins used from Rome to India were close enough to the coins used in China that all these areas developed commercial and monetary relations. The whole world became a single monetary zone by the late modern era, leading to the creation of a single global financial and political community. Even if they didn\u2019t speak the same language or believe in the same god, people from every corner of the globe shared the imagined belief in the value of silver and gold.
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Why did they share this belief? <\/strong>How does money get its value when the two groups trading it value it differently? How did they all come to believe in the same currencies when previously, some believed in cowry shells, some in barley, some in cloth, and some in beads. How did the currency become unified, the system of mutual trust in gold spreading across the globe?
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It has to do with the question Why does money have value?<\/em>, and it has to do with supply and demand<\/strong>. To understand this, let\u2019s look at a hypothetical example. Let\u2019s say that India and the Mediterranean start trading with each other. Indians don\u2019t value gold. To them, it\u2019s a relatively useless metal. It\u2019s worthless. But in the Mediterranean, gold is a status symbol, used in jewelry and crowns to highlight the wearer\u2019s prestige. In the Mediterranean, gold is extremely valuable.
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So what happens? When trading, Mediterranean merchants notice that they can get gold for next to nothing in India, where it\u2019s worthless. So they trade their goods for a lot of gold in India and sell the gold at a high price back in the Mediterranean. As the demand for Indian gold increases, and Indians see how badly the Mediterraneans want it, the value of gold in India goes up. Meanwhile, the Mediterranean is flooded with gold and its value drops.
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With the value of gold rising in India and dropping in the Mediterranean, gold\u2019s value in both places equalizes. Additionally, because the Mediterraneans believe in the value of gold, the Indians start to believe in its value, too. They value it because the Mediterranean merchants want it. The Indians want gold so they can trade it for what it is they actually want.
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In this way, money encourages unity far more easily than religion because \u201cwhereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.<\/em>\u201d This is much easier. This is the answer to the question, Why does money have value?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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