Money is just a matter of faith. - Adam Smith
To understand the present day better we have to know the past. From the moment of human existence, it has realized many revolutionary discoveries in line with its needs and shaped the present. However, an innovation in the development of mankind succeeded in passing all the others in time. It caused me to discover the world, to expand our boundaries. At the same time, our ancestors, which we hosted, also triggered the sense of savagery inherited to us. But it is a fact that the hunter is a collective structure, thanks to the complex structure of today's civilization we call civilization, that is, thanks to money.
Money is the foundation of all evil, but it can still solve all our problems. Even if we can not be happy with the money, we may be convinced that we have bought happiness. We can work for him in the things we hate, we can show behaviors we know are wrong. The warning we made in our brains is the same as the warning observed in the brain of a drug user. We still carry the instinctive effects of money. A voice from the old people always tells us: "The more, the better".
So where and how did we begin to associate with money ...
The development of civilization began with clearing when we became hunter - gatherers and began to live in tribes. When they encountered the two tribes, they observed that they could apply a system in which they could gain a mutual advantage instead of fighting. It is this new way of thinking that exchanges their needs that are not themselves with each other. Even though we tend to be impulsively aggressive, the beginning of trade has shaped our future because it is possible that we can reach more in this way.
As human beings dispersed into the world, our needs began to become increasingly difficult to diversify and exchange. For this we have to use things with fixed values according to the conditions of the period, as long as we have trade relations. Stone, beads, post, salt and finally the coin ...
Agoras were established in Ancient Greece, meaning the shopping centers of the time. Here they started to gather together to get the needs of the people, regardless of class. They were not just things but places where they exchanged ideas, and these places were places where democracy seeds were first laid.
It changed our business life completely. Four thousand years ago, Mesopotamian merchants established their first major trading networks. And as soon as everything that could come to mind was started to be traded. These conquests have devoured, provoked religions and transformed history. Everything has become buyable and sellable, which of course has opened other exploitation doors ...
In the meantime, the interests of the two sides due to the hypocritical nature of trade sometimes did not match. Political, military and religious leaders believed that trade was regulated. Traders who did not deceive, deceive, or disobey God's order were exalted by the clergy. From all the holy texts written from Hammurabi to the Bible, the morality of the weight measures in the market is mentioned. This is also the measure of the concept of justice and its symbolism with the scales. Weighing the same means justice. This is the basis of the world trade is standardized, that is, the basis of our need to measure in a way and gave birth to our units of measurement.
In 550 BC, the Lydians gave a new direction to the tarihe. Lydia was at that time an important trading center in the ancient world. King of Lydia Karun had made gold and silver coins and started to use it instead of other materials. This idea spread over time and the form of trade changed forever.
These coins had their own values due to the fact that they were gold and silver, but it was not possible for us to continue with them in the long run in our world where we live with scarce resources.
In Mongolia in 1279 Kubilay Khan was the ruler of the world's greatest empire. The fact that all the government was kept together was basically based on fear, but it was also the other base. Kubilay Khan considered something worthless to the people as valuable. He suppressed his paper money from the tree bark, and then ordered the country to use it instead of a coin. Although no one believes that shells have any value, so the idea of paper money with fear has entered into our lives. The paper was turned into an underside. And this paper is starting to change the world. Paper was something that could be printed, which was a good tool to quickly increase the wealth.
Yeah, everything could be bought and sold ...
When this idea opened another door of exploitation: Slavery
For four centuries, the Africans were taken from the continents and moved into slaves to places more civilized. At the time of the disappearance of a continent, America was established, other continents became enriched, and people who lived in advantageous places became slaves in their routine affairs, and the free time increased, which was returned to us as more intellectual production.
Today, though slavery is being laid as if it is still, there is not much that is changing, only modern versions are being experienced in society.
Now the money has completely changed shape. Through the lice, money can flow from one point to another. Instead of paper money, we can supply our needs quickly, often with our plastics in our pockets, without having to leave our place. The money is becoming increasingly invisible.
The money has united people, triggered the consciousness, and prepared the necessary infrastructure to spread new philosophies and religions. But what should not go out of our minds is creating money and destroying money as we can observe dozens of times throughout history ...