Monies, Cows, and Chickens

I see a lot of people put a lot of importance on money. I can kind of understand that. A fairy doesn't need money because we kind of get everything we need from nature. Those in the magical world who need stuff do barter. I don't think human peoples understand bartering very much.

Human peoples can't provide everything they need for themselves, the same applies to the magical world. Let's say that an Elf needs a cow for milk. The cow cost ten chickens. Most cows are raised in a different village so the Elf has to haul the ten chickens to that village for trade. Most times he has to take 11 chickens because one might die on the way.

Someone decided a long time ago that gold coins were a lot easier to carry around. One gold coin is worth 10 chickens. The Elf doesn't need a wagon to carry a single gold coin with which to buy the cow. He simply sold ten chickens to a village that was closer. Sounds pretty simple doesn't it? Well it did until the Leprechauns came along.

You see, the Leprechauns love gold. They use magic to take gold from the ground. They have so much gold it's not worth much. In the Leprechaun village a cow is still worth ten chickens, but it takes 10 gold coins to buy a cow. That doesn't matter too much except the Leprechauns need chickens too and they are so busy making gold coins they don't spend much time raising cows and chickens. They usually buy everything they need.

Eventually all the towns with which the Leprechauns traded, the value of gold decreased because people began to have so much. This excess of gold eventually spreads out to all the villages until the day comes the Elf would need 10 gold coins to buy that cow, even though the cow is still worth 10 chickens. This leads to new problem.

The Ogres produce most of the cows in the area. Ogres wanted more gold so they started producing more cows. Soon they were overflowing with cows. They eventually had to start selling the cows for 5 chickens just to get rid of them. All the villagers began to buy up cows until everyone had all they needed. The value of cows dropped to almost nothing.

The same thing kind of happened with the Leprechauns. They kept making gold coins until gold was nearly worthless. Eventually it would take hundreds of gold coins to buy chickens because the chicken farmers never over produced. When there is too much of one thing it's value drops.

I kind of noticed you human peoples do the same thing. The government god makes the paper stuff you trade for stuff. Paper has no inherent value, but society has placed value on paper with certain words. That's kind of okay except when the government makes too much of that paper. We could say one paper is worth ten chickens. You might think that the government god could just make all the paper money it wants and human peoples would have lots of paper to buy chickens. It's kind of like the Leprechauns and the gold. Too much of anything drops it's value.

On Earth there are other villages across the big ocean that have their own paper. It would be silly for them to trade their paper equally with American people's paper because the government god is printing so much. For the printed paper to have a fixed value, it must also have a fixed quantity.

I notice the government god gives farmers printed paper in order not to plant something. The government god decides they want corn to be more expensive so they give the farmers printed paper not to plant corn. Because beans(not magic beans) were too expensive and in short supply, the government god was paying other farmers to plant beans to raise the quantity.

It kind of looks like to me that the government god is like some of the bad kings of old. They told people how to live. It is easy to control the human peoples when you control the food supply and the printed paper or gold supply. I think human people's were meant to be free creatures, but I think the government god is enslaving them.