<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>choke_this wrote</title><author_name>choke_this (npub1cp…222sp)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1cp6wlyvy3swhf2rrnjp2rn0hxu3tdzz89lqjppp6yw255lytwhgqs222sp</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>depends on how you define fiction and arbitrary - do you consider mathematics an arbitrary fiction?&#xA;&#xA;I think abstraction is a better descriptor.&#xA;&#xA;The entire human experience of life is an abstraction of reality, it necessarily must be, since brains have a finite processing capability.  So money is a abstraction of human effort that can be traded for the efforts of another. &#xA;&#xA;</html></oembed>