There is no “money”

Crucially, society as a whole needs to think differently about the nature of money –possibly by first discarding the term itself. “Money” encompasses a range of phenomena that have intrinsically different purposes and risks. Commercial bank deposits are materially different to banknotes, for example, which are different to reserve funds. Money as a concept is increasingly outdated and misleading.

— “‘Outdated and misleading’: is it time to reassess the very concept of money?,” Stuart Kells in The Guardian
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