The Value of Money 💰🧱 #MoneyMatters #Currency #Wealth #FYM

20 Aug 2024 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video titled "The Value of Money 💰🧱 #MoneyMatters #Currency #Wealth #FYM" (Worldwide Ty). Two speakers discuss the socially constructed value of currency — arguing people accept dollars as valuable because society says so — and offer a metaphorical alternative: preferring "bricks" (houses/real estate) as a more tangible store of wealth if currency loses value. The exchange emphasizes cultural belief in money and the perceived security of physical assets.

It's just like you only know the dollar is valuable because your mama told you the dollar is valuable and the ecosystem told you. But the moment they say, you know what? The dollar ain't valued no more. If you want to get some money. These bricks, these bricks, you're not dreaming.
About dollars no more. You dreaming about bricks.
I need these bricks. Everybody got brick houses. They wealth. They're wealthy now.
But I think that's a really important point. Now, again, to LaRussell's point, being an independent artist is hard. Like, it's difficult. So doing something hard over and over again, and if it looks easier as a major, that's going to be enticing.