Trade happens when two people exchange something that is of value to them with each other.
One guy has mangoes, another guy has stones, and they want each other’s stuff, so they trade it.
Soon we came up with money because it was hard to find exactly the guy who has what you want and he wants what you want.
But money is a derivative of someone’s want, right? Money means you have something others want.
Another thing to understand is that money came into your position because you had something others wanted.
So if you want money, you have to have some things that others want. That’s the only bottleneck here.
If you have something they want bad enough, they will give you the money for it.
You can’t really read minds, so you won’t really know what people want, right? So you have to keep yelling about what you have and what you might have.
Money is basically a receipt for perceived or actually transferred usefulness, desire, status, entertainment, relief, access, or leverage.