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RE: [#AskSteemit] What's one thing you've realized that changed how you think forever? Up to 20 SBD prize pool
My biggest is definitely questioning the nature of money, that strange moment when i question about the pieces of paper in my wallet lol.
@kevinwong something similar happened to me after I read The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, The Ascent of Money and Origins of Wealth. Those three books really changed how I thought about value, how humans store value, and by extension, money. It made me come to an understanding the concept of value for absolutely everything is simultaneously subjective and contextual...and that brought me into the world of magic internet money.
Along these lines, for me, it was the realization that security and money and so much more, are just like every other good. Which gave rise to, "And other goods get better when not produced under monopoly. So, why do we have monopolies in these areas?" And eventually, "OMG we don't need the monopolies."
Mises U did it for me. I had no idea what to expect there. Walked out a different person.
After all. "money" is a tool for trade. It was worth something as agreed by everyone because everyone else has something valuable to trade.
It's weird how people get blinded, lost, even killed for a few pieces of "tools of trade"