1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Cloud Kicker (critialcloudkicker) http://rainbowdash.net/critialcloudkicker http://rainbowdash.net/notice/3037884 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/6761" class="url" title="Pony"><span class="fn nickname">pony</span></a></span> In shorthand. You trade equal values, right ? So lets say I trade you 8 eggs for a loaf of bread. One day someone invented money, so nowadays we all trade goods and services for money. Around this time someone just like you said &quot;I do not understand why we are trading for money, where does the value come from ?&quot; The value comes from the ability to esteem worth a certain good or service in money. After all, you can not possibly equate the formula &quot;If 1200 chickens can be traded for a lambourgini, and a lambourgini can be traded for ten thousand full peanutbutter jars, howmany peanutbutter jars is a chicken&quot; . Why ? Because the market fluctuates TOO MUCH in large numbers. Now let us look at diffrent countries, they also have a valuta right, and their own money. Because they wanted to trade someone started a buisness exchanging currencies, and got rich doing so. In the end of the story however, we the individual, decides to work with, or not with someone when using money ( cont. )