WTF IS $$$ | PART 1
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHOSE IDEA IT WAS TO TURN TREES INTO PAPER THAT YOU COULD SWAP FOR STUFF?
Have you ever wondered whose idea it was to turn trees into paper that you could swap for stuff? And how this thing, called money, became the object that people spend their lives chasing. And in some cases, loathing. If money isn’t going anywhere, can we make it work for us, instead of working for it? In ‘What the f**k is money’, we talk about growing up in a capitalist world, where getting ahead feels hard and getting ahead with clean hands feels harder.
Part 1/2. Complimentary article “Mo money, mo problems” by Laura Woods.