Serendipity Daily Thoughts

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Money – we all love it. Probably it is the first or second most important things of our lives. (Some people, including me, cherish human connections than money, but some others put huge stakes on money.) If we were supposed to describe the current society in a simple sentence, it would like be something like “humans developed an imaginary tool and exchange things using that tool”. Yes, money is merely an imaginary mean of exchanging items created by humans. Yet, we cannot make ourselves live without using money. Our clothes, foods, books, bags, everything is purchased through paying money. We typically earn money as a return for our labor works. (I cannot imagine how I am going to live if I only get meals that worth my labor works after I finish working on that day.) Even services are purchased with money – for example, we need to pay money for using public transportation, using restaurants, and getting higher education. Isn’t it interesting that human activities are based on exchanges of the imaginary tool?

The origin of money is believed to be evolved when humans started settled in one place to live. By placing a house on one location, it is seemingly harder to move around to gather variety of resource, so what they started to do was to exchange materials. For instance, a group of people living by sea coast possibly wanted to have rice to eat, so they might ask another group of people living inland to exchange their fish and salt with rice. If both of the groups agreed each other to trade their materials, the deal could be made.

Money exchanges done in the modern society can be considered as the extension of the trades of items. When we want to buy an item, we usually use money to purchase the item, so it does not seem like we exchange items to get what we want to do. However, if we think of how we have got the money, we realize that money is just a mean which connects two different items produced by humans, because money can be earned by our labor production. Some people produces raw foods, and others provides services to earn money. Therefore, it can be concluded that we usually buy items in exchange of our labor works which produce other items.

To be summarized, the flow of money can be described as: labor works produces items, which are bought using money. -> the money exchanged with the items goes to the workers’ pockets -> the workers buy necessary items using the money -> the necessary items were actually produced by labor works done by other people -> so on…

I would like to stop my writing here for today, and talk further about money tomorrow. Thank you for reading through this piece of writing, and I hope we will see you again! Please feel free to leave some comments on what was the best purchase so far in 2026, or what are in your wishing lists to buy in this year!