we do, and we did -- _before_ we used money widespread. Trust vs commodities -- one of the coolest things I ever wrote, way back when I was deep in this literature https://authory.com/JoakimBook/a/Do-You-have-Silver-ab0be998dd5554baabd6207aec1a9337f

denlillaapan

why do we use things for money at all? Why not just use words?

In addition to your explanation about inherent(*ish) honesty, my thought was about information compression and retention.

It would be very cumbersome to have to constantly articulate all of the factors that go into a price, aside from the fact that no one even knows all of those factors.

This is similar to the reason for mathematical notation.

bitcoin

econ

Money is a language

Scoresby

> why do we use things for money at all? Why not just use words?

In addition to your explanation about inherent(*ish) honesty, my thought was about information compression and retention.

It would be very cumbersome to have to constantly articulate all of the factors that go into a price, aside from the fact that no one even knows all of those factors.

This is similar to the reason for mathematical notation.