Cliffhanger. His unfinished concept of comparing money to a chair leaves readers "confused, disoriented and exploitable" enough to pitch his newsletter signup at the end.<p>What is he selling? Just spit it out already.
"From false premises, anything follows"<p>"Money too has a structure..."
- Brett Scott<p>Hear I'm focusing on this undefined, elusive structure that Brett keeps alluding to. Not the superficial description of paper currency or coinage. Being honest, I hardly see a difference from a superficial description of an object and the author's use of structure, but I'll ignore that for now.<p>What is the structure of love? Of wisdom? Of pride, anger, hatred, or even better, of value?<p>The reason people/economist focus on the function of money is because that's a wise thing to do given it's immaterial source. Money, is a manifestation of the idea of value.<p>The fact that people conceptually struggle with it is no more significant than the fact that people struggle with calculus.