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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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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???
Because direct trade and barter stopped making sense centuries 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