<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>Jeff Swann (npub1aj…ftppj)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1ajv7m32k0cpgzha32qszsh304qusjvwwmavus0ttktzldms4xzusuftppj</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>That&#39;s like saying it&#39;s unnatural for every interaction to take place over a computer, when no one is saying every interaction should take place via a computer. Money is a technology for scaling interactions between people who don&#39;t know each other, and prices efficiently communicate changing economic conditions.&#xA;&#xA;No one is saying you shouldn&#39;t lend your neighbor a tool or a cooking ingredient if you want to do that. But people who want all economic transactions to be part of a &#34;gift economy&#34; where money doesn&#39;t exist, or some other such nonsense, are generally either idiots or parasites, often both.</html></oembed>