Something I’d like to mention, money was still mostly cash. I remember when credit cards became a thing. Getting credit and loans was rare. If you didn’t have the cash, you didn’t get it.
You could actually feel and count what you spent and realize how many hours of work it took to make. Now it’s just a fuzzy digital idea of how much youve earned and how much you owe.
Interestingly though… There was still the concept of “bad money, blood money, or filthy lucre.” If you thought someone was buying something with money they’d gotten from drugs, or whoring women or hurting people, you had the option of not taking it. Black balling that person and not dealing with them.
Now it’s so digital, and there is no concept of dirty money. The goal is get it anywhere and everywhere at all costs, and that’s wrong. The morality has gone out of trade and economics. And as crazy as that sounds, yes, there used to be morality in economics.
Certainly more than there is since the start of the new millennium.
I’ve heard of cryptocurrency/bit coin and spice road, but real physical money and face to face exchange was a different feel.
Rule #3 Internet is anonymous.
It’s the way it is… But it’s different.