Money as the dark matter of the universe

Money as the dark matter of the universe

What if money was a perishable good, like a sack of potatoes — or a daily newspaper? Would society function better? That’s the central premise of this intriguing essay by the writer and professor Jacob Baynham, who traces the history of money back to 600 B.C.E, and its earliest skeptics, like Aristotle. The Greek philosopher, Baynham notes, “worried that Greeks were losing something important in their pursuit of coins. Suddenly, a person’s wealt…