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Many of you who know me will probably have heard me say at some time or other that money is a fictitious concept that only works because we all agree to believe in it.
It's all lots of fun until it stops working, as it has in the last few months, then lots of people who take it far too seriously start to panic. I find it alternately amusing and terrifying that something which amounts to a glorified game of Monopoly is what the world runs on. When some people talk about the end of the world happening in 2012, I half-wonder if it will turn out to be a global economic collapse.
I notice that the Aldi around the corner from where I live makes you put in a $2 coin to use a trolley to encourage you to take it back again instead of leaving it in the car park. I remember when that used to be 20 cents. Who would've thought that laziness could be subject to inflation too?
Anyway, I'll save my musings on the economy for another day. What I'm leading up to is this week's Sunday Quote - from surely one of the smartest businessmen who ever lived...
"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
- Henry Ford
Something to think about.
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