Money is a Concept

Money is a Concept

James Lewis Messina

Plato alludes us to the theory that nothing in a physical sense can be perfect, only an idea. If one were to draw a square for example it could never be perfect no matter what sort of pen or medium he uses because the molecules can not a line exactly alike for every molecule is different, although the idea of a perfect square can be conceived.

A jet plane is derived from elements known to man, therefore it always existed he just lacked the knowhow to assemble them together. If molecules can not be perfect, who determines what is perfect? If perfect can only be a conception than there is a vast difference of conceptions. For that reason one might conceive the world as perfect harmony and another as inevitable doom. We all perceive these concepts different.

Money usually in the form of paper has a value to a particular concept. Ownership to these values is also concepts, whether one conceives an array of digits at a bank or a block of gold buried in his backyard. Speaking of backyards or real estate they also have a concept value, whether documented on a deed or an equivalent of trinkets of a particular people who call themselves Dutch purchased from a particular people who are called Indians of a piece of real estate called Manhattan.

If physical things are infallible, than ownership are also. These concepts are short lived, as of a so called second temple of King Solomon had a so called large value, whether by consumables like wine or grain or things that sparkle like silver and jewels. Yet these values have limits. One can only consume so much wine and gaze at so much glitter of rubies.

The value is a concept to everyone, one might use his or hers concept of money to buy heroin to another cigarettes to another real estate and yet to another a combustion powered vehicle and yet to others festive activities at restaurants. Many use wealth to prostitute or to be prostituted. When these concepts are endowed with power wars can be conceived.

Therefore to all this is the essence of an idea is value and if value is correlated to wealth than one must define wealth. To some health is wealth then again to perceive what health is, is also an idea.