Questionmarktarius posted... Explain.
What you base your money on, be it:
- Gold Standard
- Fiat Currency
- Latinum (Star Trek)
- Imperial/Republic Credits (Star Wars & Star Trek)
Is largely a artificial valuation of a common unit of exchange (i.e. currency) and always has been.
The real value/wealth of any nation is:
- The Goods, Services, & Knowledge they produce/provide from the a combination of raw materials, energy, & Labor available in various forms.
- The Territory that they claim/control & the ability to enforce it
- The raw access to Materials, Energy, & Labor Pool (Especially Highly Educated & Specialized labor fields) to grow your new Goods, Services, & Knowledge base.
- The ability to constantly innovate, improve, and out produce your competition (Other Nation States)
- The Military might to enforce your claim once peaceful negotiations / business dealings fail.
- The ability to maintain or expand your population over the long term while growing the repeated system of making, providing, and consuming.
- The power you wield as a Nation State and the ability to influence policy / direction of other Nation States without the need for "Brute Force" if possible. You FAILED MISERABLY if you have to revert to "Brute Force" or you're in a very crappy sitation that has resulted into "Brute Force". Either way, it should be the LAST OPTION on your play book. But it should ALWAYS be an option available should all other methods of negotion and business dealings fail. Otherwise, you'll always be at the mercy of somebody more powerful than you.
The entire currency system is a artifical construct based on "Debt based Currency"
Our entire Fiat Currency System is literally run on "Debt" instead of the "Wealth" we produce and what is available when we make new "Wealth" available to everybody.
Go research it, there's a HUGE rabbit hole you can fall into about the issue.