[Nothing bad can happen to them :) they are not at the whims of Us :)]
Part of it was practicality, because we had no way to mint our own money. Bringing it from topside wasn't going to work. It would eventually run out somehow. Part of it was because... no one really wants to trade money, when we could just trade resources. At the end of the day, you're trading labour for money for food, and it just made sense to cut out the money portion.
[Ain shrugs.]
Thousands of years ago, trade was how human society operated. There was no money. You traded an apple for an orange, or three goats for a cow, or something of the sort. We're just a bunch of strays who want lives, and a lot of us are happier working for something directly. Plus, then it lets us take care of the ill or the children. People who can't work. It might be too idealistic when this place gets bigger than it is, but... for now, it works.
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Part of it was practicality, because we had no way to mint our own money. Bringing it from topside wasn't going to work. It would eventually run out somehow. Part of it was because... no one really wants to trade money, when we could just trade resources. At the end of the day, you're trading labour for money for food, and it just made sense to cut out the money portion.
[Ain shrugs.]
Thousands of years ago, trade was how human society operated. There was no money. You traded an apple for an orange, or three goats for a cow, or something of the sort. We're just a bunch of strays who want lives, and a lot of us are happier working for something directly. Plus, then it lets us take care of the ill or the children. People who can't work. It might be too idealistic when this place gets bigger than it is, but... for now, it works.