>They only serve as a symbol that allows more convenient trade of real goods.
That sounds pretty fucking useful.
>Thinking about money the way you think is a main reason of the current economical crysis.
That's a rather silly thing to say. You need to step your game up when posting on HN.
>Billionaires usually don't spend much on consumption, neither they keep their resources unused.
Did you miss the part where I mention land?
>Most of every billionaire wealth is his company, or companies, in which they employ thousands of people (giving them opportunity to earn for their living) and produce things that fulfill needs of millions.
You don't have a clue what you're talking about. This is the case for billionaires that you see on HN because that's what we're interested in. There are plenty of billionaires who don't work and don't have businesses. "Old money" families.
No, you can't do anything useful with money themselves. they are just junk pieces of paper.
People created money as a way of remembering favours they did to each other. So basically your income reflects your worth for society (how much society values things you can produce). That worked pretty well as long as money were somenthing physical and rare, as gold. Once money became "state made", as you called it, government won an opportunity to manipulate them. And that manipulation, creating money without creating actual goods that you can buy in exchange for them, is in fact the reason for the crisis. Banks created derivates from risky mortgages, do some mathematic voo-doo to convince everyone that they are safe and profitable.
>Did you miss the part where I mention land
No, but what's the point of keeping the land unused? it's much more profitable for a billionaire to build some houses, apartments, offices there and then rent them. And by renting apartments to poor people you're making them a favour, because they have not enough money to build their own place to stay.
>You don't have a clue what you're talking about. This is the case for billionaires that you see on HN because that's what we're interested in. There are plenty of billionaires who don't work and don't have businesses. "Old money" families.
How much money can you spend on your own needs? House (or houses)? $200M? private jet? another $100M Collection of sport cars (Ferrari, Bugatti, etc.)? Let's give it $30M Travel around the world? that's hardly $10$ So you see that spending BILLIONS of dollars just for your own good is not an easy thing. That's why sooner or later every billionare engages in a some big project which is supposed to be his legacy for the mankind.
Your problem is that you see people that earn more than you as inherently evil and want to punish them.
O'rly?
>They only serve as a symbol that allows more convenient trade of real goods.
That sounds pretty fucking useful.
>Thinking about money the way you think is a main reason of the current economical crysis.
That's a rather silly thing to say. You need to step your game up when posting on HN.
>Billionaires usually don't spend much on consumption, neither they keep their resources unused.
Did you miss the part where I mention land?
>Most of every billionaire wealth is his company, or companies, in which they employ thousands of people (giving them opportunity to earn for their living) and produce things that fulfill needs of millions.
You don't have a clue what you're talking about. This is the case for billionaires that you see on HN because that's what we're interested in. There are plenty of billionaires who don't work and don't have businesses. "Old money" families.