Originally Posted by: lateralisOk? And I never said my happiness comes from gold or a diamond and I don't treat it as a sustenance. It's nice to look at it but if both were to be gone tomorrow I wouldn't die from it.

That was a simple example of inanimate objects carrying value.Just reinforcing what jolly said earlier that money does have value even though its "paper".

If food and clean water were gone tomorrow,you would die from it...what can aquire such basic things?