Why do we use money?
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Why do we use money?
Imagine you baked the world's best chocolate chip cookies. Your neighbor grows tomatoes. Your friend down the street fixes bicycles. How do you get tomatoes and a bike repair without baking cookies for everyone forever?
You could trade directly: five cookies for a basket of tomatoes. Ten cookies for a bike tune-up. But what if the bike repair person doesn't like cookies? What if they want tomatoes, and the tomato grower wants a bike repair, and you're all standing in a circle trying to figure out who owes what to whom?
